On 10/28/2013 11:23 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > thanks, I'll go take a look. As far as I can tell from all the > aforementioned HOWTOs, bridged is the way to do it?? none of 'em > says anything about doing it any other way. what am I overlooking > in my ignorance? bridged is appropriate if you want to see your VM's virtual NIC's appear on your local network such that the VM's get their own IP addresses that are reachable by other LAN hosts. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast