well, I would need the NAT for accessing the internet though. How would I accomplish this then?
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 31 August 2008, Frank Mehnert wrote: >> On Sunday 31 August 2008, Mag Gam wrote: >> > I am using Debian as my guests and Ubuntu as Host. >> > What is a TAP interface? >> >> TAP device == host interface networking. See the user manual for a >> detailed description on how to set up this network interface on a >> Linux host. >> >> > I am using PCNET FastIII as my interfaces. >> >> So could you check please if there is some difference in the performance >> if you switch to E1000 instead? >> >> For comparison: I have a Debian/Sid host here and a Debian/Etch guest >> connected with a Ubuntu/Gutsy guest over an internal network. With >> wget I achieve a data rate of ~48 MByte/s from one VM to the other. >> >> You might also check with traceroute in the guest that the network >> packets are routed only through the internal network interface. > > Keep in mind that an internal network interface does not receive > an IP automatically because there is usually no DHCP server > attached to such an interface. So you should assign an IP manually, > for instance: > > VM1: ifconfig eth1 192.168.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 > VM2: ifconfig eth1 192.168.5.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > I assume that eth0 is the NAT interface on both VMs and eth1 is > the internal network. You also want to disable the NAT interface > (perhaps disconnect the network cable in the VM settings) to make > sure the traffic is NOT routed through the NAT interface. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > -- > Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
