Possibly OT: networking under VirtualBox

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, October 28, 2010 02:38 AM, Mark wrote:

> 1) It can't see my on-board network, so it can't reach the internet or
> even the local (router) network.
>
> 2) It keeps finding some base hardware component that it doesn't
> identify and can't seem to install.


Are you running Windows 7?


>
> (These may be related....)
>
> Most importantly I need to get the guest to recognize the network
> because I remote mount via samba eight virtual drives for shared
> access between the host and the guest, and some of the installed apps
> depend on seeing a remote mounted D: drive that is currently
> invisible/inaccessible.
>
> I was using NAT, but obviously the way VMware did that and VB does
> that are not the same or, apparently, compatible.
>
> Before I used NAT, I was using bridged mode, but since that gives the
> guest the same IP address shared with the host, that makes the remote
> mounting of the samba drives impossible.
>
> I realize that this is more of a VB question than Ubuntu, per se, but
> if anyone has any similar experience or wise suggestions here, I'd
> appreciate the input.

VBox supports setting up a shared drive. Assign the guest additions iso 
to a drive and install. Then you can download and share the virtio net 
drivers to Windows from Ubuntu. Set the nic for Windows to bridged and 
virtio to get Windows its own ip and a paravirtualized nic instead of an 
emulated one.