virtualbox fans?

[Derek Broughton]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Okay, experimenting with VM's after being soured to VMWare Server having
> "minor problems" with networking on latest kernels in Hardy.
> 
> I took a test system and installed VirtualBox from the .deb binary (not
> OSE version) from VirtualBox's site.
> 
> Installed WinXP. It's running with NAT networking, as it appears that
> there are a few hoops you have to jump through to get bridging to work
> properly :-/
> 
> Clarification: if I have a network of 192.168.x.x, with the host on
> 192.168.0.10, and the guest in VirtualBox is NAT'd to 10.0.2.10 by it's
> own autoconfiguration, it looks like it can get into the Internet but I
> can't ping or connect to a machine on, say, 192.168.0.15, within my own
> network? And 192.168.0.15 can't get into the VM's system unless I enable
> port forwarding on 192.168.0.10 to point to the 10.0.2.10 address?

Correct.  
-- 
derek