On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:31:56AM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I'm running Lenny-amd64. I set up virtualbox-amd64 from their deb. Works > fine, but....I have a network printer (HP Officejet Pro 8500) at 192.168.1.32 > which is within my local network. The install of virtualbox sets up a > network on the 10.x.x.x network for access between the guest OS and the host. > > I was able to force the installer to find the printer but it told me that > since I was crossing networks it might not work properly. Sure enough, pages > get dropped during a multi page print job. > > My question is how do I change the IP that virtualbox uses for the guest to > communicate with the host so that the guest is within my network and my > printing will work properly? > What you want is "Host Interface" networking. It involves configuring a bridge on the host computer. It is covered very well in the VirtualBox documentation, section 6.5. You can get that on VirtualBox's "downloads" webpage.
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