I have some experience playing with the network settings and have had to
do so once or twice. But so far it has been trial and error until things
work. Bad practise. I should try to learn what the settings mean.
I have a suspicion -- to be confirmed -- that I need to work out what
Vbox offered network card corresponds to what I physically have, which
usually is a wifi card, though I could plug in on this machine.
The key part is "make the interface" -- as above, there are some options
I need to learn about and may need to ask more questions.
Thanks, JN
On 15-07-06 02:20 PM, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:32:37PM -0400, ProfJCNash wrote:
>> I'm trying to get a (legal) Windows 7 Pro 32 bit virtual machine running
>> under VirtualBox […] but get a failure to check updates ("service not
>> running", even though the services are running). Some postings on Net
>> suggest that the issue is the fake network card in VirtualBox and that
>> there is a way -- possibly inconvenient -- to set up a direct connection
>> to the real network card on the machine.
>>
>> Has anyone experience (or any knowledge) of doing that?
>
> Yes, on OS X a while back, and on Linux with QEMU. The theory is the same.
>
> Do you just not know where to start, or are you having issues with
> setting up a bridged connection in VirtualBox? Go to the network
> interface card settings of your virtual machine, change the network
> adapter to bridged mode from the userspace NAT mode, and make the
> interface to bridge to your Ethernet interface.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex Pilon
>