Opened 14 years ago
#8730 new enhancement
Portability: please allow to move VMs with Bridged NIC attached
| Reported by: | Technologov | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
The key point of v4.0 architecture is portability. However the situation with bridged NICs disallows to port to a different host.
From original author, "NeBlackCat":
"When moving VMs back and forth between Windows and Linux hosts, or using a dual boot configuration, you're faced with the issue that NIC names will be different. In Windows, VirtualBox uses the immutable Windows-assigned NIC names (eg. "Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller(NDIS6.20)") in its .vbox files, not the user rename-able friendly names (eg. "LAN", or even "eth0"), so you can't make them the same."
original forum thread: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=40774&p=183435#p183435
-Technologov, NeBlackCat, and others... 16.04.2011.
