Re: Possibly OT: networking under VirtualBox

On Thursday, October 28, 2010 02:38 AM, Mark wrote:

1) It can't see my on-board network, so it can't reach the internet or
even the local (router) network.

2) It keeps finding some base hardware component that it doesn't
identify and can't seem to install.


Are you running Windows 7?



(These may be related....)

Most importantly I need to get the guest to recognize the network
because I remote mount via samba eight virtual drives for shared
access between the host and the guest, and some of the installed apps
depend on seeing a remote mounted D: drive that is currently
invisible/inaccessible.

I was using NAT, but obviously the way VMware did that and VB does
that are not the same or, apparently, compatible.

Before I used NAT, I was using bridged mode, but since that gives the
guest the same IP address shared with the host, that makes the remote
mounting of the samba drives impossible.

I realize that this is more of a VB question than Ubuntu, per se, but
if anyone has any similar experience or wise suggestions here, I'd
appreciate the input.

VBox supports setting up a shared drive. Assign the guest additions iso
to a drive and install. Then you can download and share the virtio net
drivers to Windows from Ubuntu. Set the nic for Windows to bridged and
virtio to get Windows its own ip and a paravirtualized nic instead of an
emulated one.

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