Comments on: Host interface networking made easy in VirtualBox 2.1.0

By: KorlaPlankton

KorlaPlankton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:03:31 +0000

“Will my guest have the same ip address as in NAT ?”

No. It gets an address like it was a real machine.

“Can I still configure my client to use a DHCP server or do I have to assign the IP myself?”

If by ‘client’ you mean guest, yes you can use DHCP. The point of the Host Interface connection is that your guest OS appears to be a real machine to the network. Thus configuring the guest OS is (or should be) identical to configuring another physical computer.

By: KingLooie

KingLooie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:54:01 +0000

This tutorial completely skips over the “how do i have to configure my guest” part.

It is still not quite clear to me how the HostInterface networking works. Will my guest have the same ip address as in NAT ? Can I still configure my client to use a DHCP server or do I have to assign the IP myself?

One example for a linux guest and one for winxp would be very helpful.

By: hamen

hamen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:24:56 +0000

Easy and clear, but when I boot my WinXP VM it freezes my Ubuntu and I gotta reboot. If I use NAT WinXP boots but it’s network-less. Any Ideas?

Ubuntu 8.04
VirtualBox 2.1
WinXP SP2