Richard wrote: > I did say read earlier replies from Frank Mehnert. > If you want to use to host networking in the methods you describe go back to > a kernel > version earlier than 2.6.18 and vbox 1.4. > I'm not going to add any more else there will be more complaints from the > latin quarter.
Just to clarify this for the record (I will represent the latin quarter for now :) - the way that VirtualBox (OSE and innotek version) dealt with tun/tap networking in version 1.4 did not work with Linux kernels as of 2.6.18, because of incompatible changes made to the tun/tap interface in that kernel. We had to change the way we dealt with tun/tap in VirtualBox 1.5 to be compatible both with the old and with the new way that the kernel manages things, but in the process we unfortunately broke many old user setups. This is not an OSE/non-OSE issue - in fact they are identical regarding networking, except that not all distributions which have repackaged OSE come with our setup scripts, so obviously our new setup instructions will not work on said distributions. In any case, I am terribly sorry for any inconvenience caused by the change. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
