On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 21:02 +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: > The new VBox-2.1 is very nice. Reading some messages I found out that > NAT is no longer required. I can attach my network interface to the > Host interface in stead of NATting it. Tried it and it worked > flawlessly. My XP virtual machine got a 192.168.x.x number ;-)
Really? I am having a heck of a time getting host networking to work correctly. > > Question: what are the (dis)advantages of using NAT vv Host interface? > Host is solaris nevada (sxce-104) > In theory host interface networking should allow the guest OS to appear on the network as if it were a real machine. For Windows it probably doesn't matter as much but if your guest is solaris or linux it is very useful. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
