Virtualbox: first steps
Sun’s recent aquisition, which is a GUI wrapper around the qemu/kvm virtualization archetecture is called Virtual Box. I’m installing a Debian guest on an OS X host. Overall the installation went smoothly, fast, simple, networking auto configured. But when I try and connect to the server from the host or any other hosts on the LAN, I cannot. This is due to qemu’s odd networking model which requires the user to manually configure bridging on the host. Unfortunately, they have not published any docs to do this on OS X…so I’m going hacking.