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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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