Jan 11, 2011 I finally got the Sony home cinema BDV E370 to talk to my wireless network. On the wifi bridge, I set it up again on a laptop computer, but using the latest software on the website www.wifibridge.co.uk, not the software on the minidisc supplied with the open:media device.
I am trying to bridge two interfaces on OS X 10.10 'Yosemite' but somehow this does not seem to work for virtual interfaces:
The network on Virtualbox goes over 'Host Only Network'
Is there a way to overcome this? I want to bridge 192.168.56.1 with the Wi-Fi in order to make my virtual machines visible to other computers on the internet.
RedEagle20001 Answer
VirtualBox and OS X provide several (no-NAT) methods to connect your VM:
1. The VirtualBox 'Bridged Adapter':
First remove bridge1 in Terminal and use a 'Bridged Adapter' instead of vboxnet0 in your VM. Go to the Network settings of the respective VM -> Adapter1 -> attached to: and change the type from whatever it is now to 'Bridged Adapter' then choose your Wi-Fi interface:
The VM's en0 attached to the bridged adapter has to be configured with a unique IP in the same network range as the hosts interface IP.
Example:
- My hosts en1 config: network: 192.168.1.0/24 IP: 192.168.1.2 gateway: 192.168.1.1
- The VM's eth0 config: network: 192.168.1.0/24 IP: a free and unique IP-address in the range 192.168.1.3-192.168.1.254 gateway: 192.168.1.1
If you want to make the VM accessible to other computers in the WAN (internet) (e.g. a web-server) you have to forward the respective ports in the router to the VM's IP. The VM can be accessed by all other computers in the same network (192.168.1.0/24) in your LAN directly.
Finally it looks like this:
2. The OS X bridge
I assume en1 is your Wi-Fi interface and eth0 is the first adapter in your (Linux-)VM. Check this with ifconfig on your VM-host. Please adapt the commands and change the interfaces below if necessary.
If you don't want to use 'Bridged Adapter' but vboxnet0 do the following after starting VirtualBox:
Attach the VM adapter 1 to the 'Host-only Adapter' and the 'Name' vboxnet0.
On the host in Terminal enter:
In the VM (Linux) you have to configure an IP-address and a default route:
A configured 'Network Manager' might interfere with those settings.
On the various Macs in your network you have to configure an additional static route:
On the router your have to forward ports to the VM and add a static route to 192.168.56.0/24 to make the VM accessible to other computers in the WAN (internet).
Finally it looks like this:
The bridge and the various routes (except those on the router and the default gateway of the VM) don't survive a reboot.
To roll-back all changes:
To remove bridge1 on the host do the following:
To disable forwarding on the host do the following:
To remove static routes on the Mac enter:
Remove the static route on the Router.
As a result one might say it's much easier and much more comfortable to use method 1.
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