Creating network interface in VM?

[Steven Susbauer]

Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 in a virtual machine in
>> VirtualBox, running on a Linux (Debian) host.
>> [...]
>> I tried to set this up on the FreeBSD side, but I am unable to
>> even create the vbox0 interface:
>>
>> ---
>> # ifconfig vbox0 create
>> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument
>> ---
>>
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think what you're searching for would be to
> have VB "create" a NIC substitute for the FreeBSD guest OS. When
> you said, you could reach network from out of the FreeBSD VB,
> a virtual network adapter. Which interface did you use from
> within FreeBSD?
> 
> As far as I know, there's no vbox (pseudo)interface driver in
> FreeBSD, that's why the ifconfig create command returned an error.
> 
> 
> 
The guest machine is always going to use the virtual driver provided by
virtualbox, which is configured through the virtualbox gui control
before you start the machine. I suggest trying to configure that
interface, not vbox0. vbox0 is an interface on the host OS.

This howto from Ubuntu may help you out; notice that everything is
configured on the host machine, the guest machine has no real
differences: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#Networking

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