Hello Nigel, It's not quite clear to me what you are wanting to do there. Basically, if all you want is for your VMs to be able to access the network, then NAT is probably the way to go. You can just set up the VM to use NAT and nothing else should be required.
You will be wanting to set up host networking if you need to run servers on the VMs - in that case you would probably be best studying the networking chapters in the manual a bit, but it is not overly complex. If you are just wanting to do scp and things, you are probably best setting up your ssh server on the host and using NAT on the guest. Regards, Michael Nigel Howard wrote: > hello all, > I am looking at vbox with interest as it looks better laid out > than vmware which i use at the moment. > > unfortunately the bit i really need is networking and this seems > very flaky at the moment. maybe the linux version is better? > > I need to run a windows xp host with any of linux solaris. > I have an infernal broadcom, ext 3com and wireless nics. > > as far as i can understand from the manual: > a. they could all be NAT - DHCP nor static get picked up > b. only ONE of them can be bridged - this works but i end up > with only one nic > c. another option is connection sharing but i don't need 3 more > dhcp servers! > > do have to do anything special to get nat to work? > > BTW. a linux guest uses the bridge, but solaris won't - same ip > etc. vmware solaris uses the same nic ips etc ok. > > i would like to change to vbox as it does seem faster for what i > need to do, vmware manages to do the above easily. > > it may be just me - i am more unix than windoze so may be > missing something, or perhaps more people use the linux version! > i haven't been able to try linux version yet. > > any pointers to get 3 nics under windows accessible gratefully > received. > > BTW - i raised this on the forum, but no-one seems to reply > there... > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
