Which VirtualBox howto is best?

[NoOp]

On 10/04/2008 04:55 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> Which VirtualBox HowTos have people used successfully?
> 
> I'm having trouble understanding what's going on with VirtualBox
> networking, and the various HowTos out there sometimes don't make sense.
> That doesn't mean they are wrong.
> 
> This one, for example:
> 
>    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox
> 
> ... is great, right down to the heading "Edit One System File On The
> Host Machine". From that point on, I don't understand what they are on
> about :-) Can anyone explain what the taps and tuns are *for*?
> 
> [And why VirtualBox needs all this and VMWare "just works"?]
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> 

Do you wish to use bridging, or just use a NAT interface?

If the latter, then just install & VirtualBox will do all of the work
for you. If you need to use bridging, The the best "howto" is here:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation
  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
    http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.0.2/UserManual.pdf

[6 Virtual networking and 6.5 Introduction to Host Interface Networking
(HIF) and 6.8 Host Interface Networking and bridging on Linux hosts and
6.8.1.1 Debian and Ubuntu hosts]

Read those and if you still have problems, post back.