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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Holz
