virtualbox and ubuntu adding ethernet

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 07:29 +0000, AMER wrote:
> I am using VirtualBox with Ubuntu v 14 installed in it.
> I have created 4 virualbox ports vboxnet0,1,2,3.
> I would like to add 2 new ethernet ports in Ubuntu to assign each
> ethernet port to a vboxnet , I am already having eth0 and eth1, I
> would like to add 2 more ethernet ports

They should already be there - just unplumbed. Add suitable stanzas
in /etc/network/interfaces.

When you run ifconfig in the guest OS, do you see the extra interfaces?

And just to clarify, do you mean that your VM has four ports, and you
would like Ubuntu, which is the guest OS installed on the VM, to be able
to use all four ports, so that you have something like eth0, eth1, eth2
and eth3? Bear in mind that for some kinds of virtual port - such as
bridged - you need to have actual real ethernet ports on the host
machine!

Regards, K.

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