----- Original Message -----
From: "john lewis" <johnlewis@???>
To: <hampshire@???>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox Networking
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:03:44 -0000
> "Rob Malpass" <rd.malpass@???> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> If someone's got 5 spare minutes and an Ubuntu box, could you do me
>> a favour please?
>>
>> I'm trying to arrange for several VMs to be able to see each other
>> which apparently requires the creation of a network bridge. This
>> is so easy in XP it's almost untrue but in Ubuntu, I'm a bit
>> lost.
>
> Those docs Hugo recommended me to read* told me to <aptitude install
> bridge-utils> then edit /etc/network/interfaces so it reads
>
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet dhcp
> bridge_ports eth0
>
> the original entries for eth0 not being used
> (or in my case eth1)
>
> then restart networking
>
> the manual goes on to talk about creating permanent host interfaces
> called vbox* and also about using User Mode utilities to create TAP
> interfaces.
>
> *UserManual.pdf from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>
> I have only done the first part of the above and don't know if this
> does what you want but it hasn't affected my ability to browse the
> web
>
> the manual says it will work with Ubuntu as well ;-(
>
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> John Lewis
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Thanks John
I have a feeling that's going to work (there was no mention of making
changes to /etc/network/interfaces in the Ubuntu wiki link I posted
originally).
Cheers
Rob
