[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network – ready for mainstream?

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 20:54:23 Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> says:
> > The only real knock I have against VirtualBox is that its
> > start-things-on-boot facilities are a bit lacking. There's some
> > script out there some guy wrote that does it, iirc., but nothing
> > official or integrated.
>
> VBoxTool (<URL:http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/>. I use it and
> recommend it.
>
> > I seem to recall setting up bridged networking was non-trivial too.
>
> Not in v3.0.x; it's as simple as with VMware Server, which I used for
> years before switching.

Even with 2.2.x setting up a bridged adapter(s) was a checkbox on the GUI or a 
single line of CLI. With Vista guests you did have to change the default 
network adapter type iirc, that may well have been fixed.

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Brian Wood
beww at beww.org