Networking Bridge Ubuntu
To start, NAT is by far the easiest way to get your guests connected to the interweb, but you may want to use the guests as servers, for this you need Host Networking. You will need to install bridge-utils and uml-utilities so that you can make a tap device and add it to a bridge.
sudo apt-get install bridge-utils uml-utilities
Now make a bridge, and put your current interface into it:
sudo tunctl -t tap1 -u fred #where fred is the user you will be running vbox as
sudo chown root.vboxusers /dev/net/tun
sudo chmod g+rw /dev/net/tun
Set the permission to persist across reboots, by editing as root /etc/udev/rules.d/20-names.rules and changing:
KERNEL=="tun", NAME="net/%k"
to
KERNEL=="tun", NAME="net/%k", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0660"
Make a new bridge called br0:
sudo brctl addbr br0
Put your current interface (in this case eth0) into promiscuous mode, then add it to the bridge and give the bridge a dhcp address.
sudo ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0
If you are using DHCP to automatically get an IP address, set the bridge to use DHCP.
sudo dhclient br0
If you are using a static IP, specify the IP address, netmask and add the default gateway route
#Where 192.168.1.105 is your static IP and 255.255.0.0 is your netmask
sudo ifconfig br0 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.0.0
#Where 192.168.1.1 is your default gateway
sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1 br0
Add the new tap1 device to the bridge and activate tap1 (the second line appears to be necessary according to ![[WWW]](https://help.ubuntu.com/htdocs/ubuntu/img/u-www.png){kind=small}
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=561461#3)
sudo brctl addif br0 tap1
sudo ifconfig tap1 up
You should now be able to use host networking in vbox, just change "attached to" to "host interface" and add the interface name of tap1 in your networking settings. Read the manual as well, there are some other nifty ways to do this. Do not forget to use the root account when doing this. Also reboot your computer afterwords.