virtualbox fans?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.  

I was afraid of that. Just when I told myself I can live with that as 
long as it has the "shared folders" feature, that doesn't seem to work!

I can't find it in the network browsing, even though I set one up and 
the log said shared networking is enabled. I go to My Network Places, 
view workgroup computers, and my workgroup, and it's just the virtual 
system's name. Click entire network, then VirtualBox Shared Folders, and 
it's blank.

This is the latest binary version, 1.6.2, with WinXP guest on Ubuntu 8.04.