From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P4PDl-0007DA-34 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:31:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04079E0D44; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 02:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0973E0D44 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 02:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywo7 with SMTP id 7so1161180ywo.40 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:30:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=K+tpHnaDE/djOUCOuZY87lPfm4uP10BBTGo0E1ayE18=; b=YxqwTIQDfZt++wArzLliQwmbLdZ4DAqKxqw6iJcoD2QpXs5BVksUCCq80nu2GEqRJF go/ixRf6oBFTkVMT+ASx3xw90flVLZwgIohCbVtbxUPPfKcFtXQClwa4t4GZM/YDTuSm ww2x7CaBHnCNFy7DV0hBNzwTV96SKdBOMD1So= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=tLXoYEWOXPx9GAa0HYEEsZx3sNjYDL1emD7KE0pBbI7CC/r8uLhW0/MIAyW3DBa7bY 3VXSNRKoSiT2WVH9uSouaySxRKSfpRiHN7I9Fh80qQjjGFtVKzCiIdavzosOnkPi9RI0 xfGkg9nCb4mnXpVTgOnFc7O45rwPiOO3SosCI= Received: by 10.101.142.15 with SMTP id u15mr1064711ann.156.1286591418250; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.49] (adsl-99-154-121-102.dsl.okcyok.sbcglobal.net [99.154.121.102]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i10sm2669102ane.9.2010.10.08.19.30.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CAFD39C.1040506@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:29:48 -0500 From: James Wall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101001 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What network configuration should I use with vbox References: <201010082244.25544.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4CAF9F87.3050300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CAF9F87.3050300@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e01dae4f-1ee9-4aef-85e6-aca7f06c0b6d X-Archives-Hash: e1e478896d00a9b367786a723a7fcb9e On 10/08/2010 05:47 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: >> 2010/10/8 Mick : >>> I want to install MSWindows in a VM. I want to be able to use the guest >>> MSWindows OS to connect to a website run on apache on the Gentoo host OS on >>> the same machine. >>> >>> What is the recommended network configuration for the VM? NAT or bridge? >>> Anything I should pay particular attention to? I haven't configured a network >>> machine before. >> >> I would suggest bridge mode in this case. > > I second the motion to use bridge mode. All in favor, say "aye". > Aye! The bridged mode will give the VM a LAN address from DHCP (provided that your LAN uses DHCP) address that can then be used like a regular machine. James -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.