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VirtualBox 2.2 is Announced

Ok, it is announced for a while ago, early last month to be specific. So sorry for the late info.

But, the point is, with 2.2, a new interface type comes: Host-Only Interface (with many other bugfixes and new features, offcourse). And so my post about “Simple Network Setup On VirtualBox 2.1” is obsoleted. Just select the Host-Only Interface option on your virtual machine settings.

PS. By default, virtual box runs a dhcp server serving 192.168.56.0/24 network to host-only interfaces. You can alter the default from VirtualBox Preferences.

Simple Network Setup On VirtualBox 2.1

I’ve been using linux-vserver for the past few years, but as there is no linux-vserver kernel for ubuntu and I don’t want to give my time re-compiling kernel, I’ve decided to try alternative virtualization solutions. I’ve already tried qemu, vmware but i really don’t like them. So I gave a shot to VirtualBox.

After trying and seeing the mess on setting up network properly on virtualbox-ose, i was a little bit disappointed. But as VirtualBox 2.1, they seem to fix lots of problems with network utilization. Read more »