Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * Evan Layton (Evan.Layton at Sun.COM) wrote: > >>> Right, by pinging externally I mean *any* address external from the >>> virtual machine. Under NAT, ping just doesn't work for *any* address. >>> If you need/want to be able to ping addresses outside of your virtual >>> machine, you have to setup a host network interface. There are >>> instructions in the virtualbox docs. >>> >> Not exactly always true. I can ping various machines on the local BRM >> network from within virtual box. I am using NAT as well. >> > > That's (big) news to me. I haven't bothered trying in some time and I > haven't seen any news/documentation to suggest that they've implemented > this feature. I'll have to test it. It would be very cool if they've > 'fixed' this, setting up host interfaces isn't exactly point-and-click. > > Thank you, Glenn and Evan.
I will try to set up a host interface to see what is going to happen. Thanks Jason
