[OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

[John D Groenveld]

In message <CMM.0.95.0.1619538810.beebe at gamma.math.utah.edu>, "Nelson H. F. Bee
be" writes:
>The network setup on VirtualBox on vboxhost.example.com is unusual: its
>initial network is not bidirectional!  It only connects outbound.

When I use illumos as the host, I find it easier to dladm create an
etherstub and vnics for the host and the VBox guest.
Then I configure the VBox bridge adapter to pass the guest vnic.

This type of configuration is almost certainly possible with FreeBSD
and linux as the host.
John
groenveld at acm.org