VirtualBox network patches for FreeBSD (vboxnetflt + vboxnetadp)

[Fredrik Lindberg]

Marin Atanasov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I did an upgrade of the Virtualbox port from 3.0.51.r22226 to
> 3.0.51.r22683.
> 
> However I tried changing the network settings to Bridge mode and Host only
> networking, but that doesn't seem to work for me.
> 
> Are Fredrik's patches included in the latest port of Virtualbox or I still
> need to apply them manually?
> Also one more question about the patches - are they supposed to create the
> bridge interfaces automatically or I need to create them manually first
> before using them?
> 
> Regards,
> Marin
> 

No they are not included in the latest version of the port. They
are however include in the upstream sources so future version
of the VirtualBox port will include them.

If you're using bridged mode everything *should* work automatically,
you won't however see any "bridge interface" with ifconfig or similar,
everything is done internally.

Fredrik