Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 15 years ago
#6576 new defect
Suggestion for improving the usermanual: Hostonly connection should mention routing.
| Reported by: | Roger Wolff | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | network | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.6 |
| Keywords: | network manual | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I used virtualbox before version 2.0, and now I need it in a production case.
The guest will need to provide services to the outside world, and I need control through firewall/forwarding rules as to which ones it will be providing. Moreover, I cannot freely chose IP addresses and things like that (there is a shortage, you know. :-) ).
Anyway, back in the old days I configured it in a way that the manual mentioned: "difficult", but for me it was a snap: IP routing is easy for me. So I now wanted to use something similar. The list of options for the guest network card is now larger than what I remember from the old days. So I read the section on networking, and couldn't find the option I wanted.
I tried a random few, and ended up with "host only", which I think should mention the option of using routing from the guest to the outside world. This would've made my experience with the new version a lot easier: I could've selected the right option right away.
Note, if you used a TAP device with VirtualBox 2.0 then you still can set up a TAP device and attach the VM in bridged mode to this TAP device.