Dick,

On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Dick Davies wrote:
> Now we have a new interface showing up on the host.
>
> Does that mean we can now SSH straight into a guest without
> the port forwarding magic that you need to do with NAT?

Correct but note, that this interface is not visible from
machines other than the host.

> If so, how do you choose what IP the guest has? Is it hardcoded, or
> can you run a DHCP server on one of the guests?

unfortunately, the user manual was not yet full updated to
describe host-only networking in every detail. Section 6.7
is at least a start.

Just select host-only as network interface. You have to
select a host-only interface which is usually vboxnet0.
Then go to the global settings page and change the settings
for that interface. The IP / netmask are for the host side
of this interface. On Windows you can choose to assign the
IP for the host side from a DHCP server. This is not possible
on Linux yet. Furthermore you can assign a DHCP server to that
interface to make a guest receive DHCP leaves.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/

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