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 1P4U3M-0001LS-DG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:41:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73CA8E073F; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 07:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592A6E073F for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 07:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so2191629qyk.19 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:40:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9Cd0p1D5KFzGF8ImWttS+PnN6GSOkGvM2ATsSbqTho8=; b=U3fMzsKs+tctYdFMRE7Ln/Tx/QxHp0yEEQ5Uym+uTeAUG9u3dFq+B1GVc4hKw+DAgJ CzmmGP1e7n3LW0I5vSlbU1jqMKfg/ud4ZwExahktD/ObBZEwOLXlwB4vCQwsRGbo8ZN3 UMxiGhiFQWiCOoKmqc3zopk8sJGevEq3mOXAc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BOQ3NXEM/5u+vM3AUVeUkmvcLxL6MO4SH96jwfvPRXv7W5PhFeLdf3RSqdBRLlXbe4 cPHFBbKIOERb7/ArDzMf/TsPO9RZaLl71/z6zMKRanutQgX7bsWCAnkj5SH8oCzLz1ov ZhT8jCcxlHAmIwJa8w4PnliL7jAFV7Itap4MY= 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 Received: by 10.224.54.205 with SMTP id r13mr2377263qag.292.1286610003001; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.86.81 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:40:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CAFD39C.1040506@gmail.com> References: <201010082244.25544.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4CAF9F87.3050300@gmail.com> <4CAFD39C.1040506@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 08:40:02 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What network configuration should I use with vbox From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6f5482a0-8196-4624-8d15-964e69e8a746 X-Archives-Hash: 8b73a5bd0956968b6f49c96a326dc002 On 9 October 2010 03:29, James Wall wrote: > 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. =A0I want to be able to use the g= uest >>>> 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? =A0NAT or br= idge? >>>> Anything I should pay particular attention to? =A0I 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. Nice, thanks. --=20 Regards, Mick