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Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines
http://xdissent.github.com/ievms
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Option to use bridged networking rather than NAT #142

Open rjmunro opened 11 years ago

rjmunro commented 11 years ago

Because I develop on a Mac (or on Ubuntu with Avahi installed), I like to install bonjour for windows and use zeroconf .local addresses on the virtual machines. Unfortunately, .local addresses don't work over the NAT connection, so I need to bridge directly only the network.

Could this be an option somewhere?

jnewman commented 11 years ago

On Linux, in the virtualbox window, you can choose settings -> network, then change to bridge (see screenshot).

set-to-bridged

xdissent commented 11 years ago

Interesting, I was unaware that bonjour doesn't work over NAT in vbox. I'd like to look into that a bit more. For the time being, it might help to note that the host machine is always accessible as 10.0.2.2 from within the IE VMs.