[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#527059: virtualbox-ose: no way to know how is the user expected to configure the host vboxnet interface

[Mau]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 2.2.2-dfsg-1
Severity: normal


I really can't figure out how am I expected to configure the vboxnet0 interface on the host pc. That interface isn't ifupped at start - or when a guest machine is started -, and doesn't get any IP address.

The vboxnetflt module is loaded in rc[2-5].d - not in rcS.d, where the networking initscript could care ifup -, then I can't setup the iface in /e/n/i cleanly: the only way I could find (could'n find any info even googling around) has been adding vboxnetflt in /etc/modules and setup a /e/n/i stanza, but:

- at shutdown the interface gets destroyed by the virtualbox init script, which simply unloads the module from behind;
- the virtualbox graphical network configuration is useless since /e/n/i can't be written by simple users.

Please add some explanation somewhere.

Thanks


Mau


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (990, 'proposed-updates'), (990, 'unstable'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (200, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-p4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.26            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.9-9             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.0-3         GCC support library
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-4+b1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.0-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.24-2          XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python2.5              2.5.4-1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-g 7.4.1-1                    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  virtualbox-os 2.6.26+1.6.6-dfsg-6+lenny1 PC virtualization solution for Lin
ii  virtualbox-os 2.2.2-dfsg-1+2.6.29-3      VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern
ii  virtualbox-os 2.2.2-dfsg-1+2.6.29-4      VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern
ii  virtualbox-os 2.2.2-dfsg-1               x86 virtualization solution - Qt b

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
ii  virtualbox-ose-source       2.2.2-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - kern

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