Unable to bridge network connections

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I am using Innotek VirtualBox and trying to use its "host networking"
feature. To do this you create virtual network adaptors in the host
machine, using a TAP driver, which then show up as physical network
adaptors in the virtual machines.

To get the VMs to talk on the real network you have to bridge the
virtual adaptors with the real adaptor on the host machine.

In XP this is done by selecting all the adaptors, right-clicking and
selecting "Bridge Connections" from the context menu.

However when I do this on an XP Pro SP2 box, the menu item is greyed
out. I have searched this newsgroup back to 2003 and the VirtualBox
forums, but haven't seen any other posts which are relevant.

If anyone knows what's going wrong here or has ideas I could try to
fix it I'd be interested to hear them.
 
Re: Unable to bridge network connections



On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:48:47 +0000
Jim Hatfield <local@localhost.com> wrote:

>I am using Innotek VirtualBox and trying to use its "host networking"
>feature. To do this you create virtual network adaptors in the host
>machine, using a TAP driver, which then show up as physical network
>adaptors in the virtual machines.
>
>To get the VMs to talk on the real network you have to bridge the
>virtual adaptors with the real adaptor on the host machine.
>
>In XP this is done by selecting all the adaptors, right-clicking and
>selecting "Bridge Connections" from the context menu.
>
>However when I do this on an XP Pro SP2 box, the menu item is greyed
>out. I have searched this newsgroup back to 2003 and the VirtualBox
>forums, but haven't seen any other posts which are relevant.
>
>If anyone knows what's going wrong here or has ideas I could try to
>fix it I'd be interested to hear them.

I do not run vbox on XP, I run it Linux.
How many virtual machines on your network?



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