Hi, I do not know who you are, but whoever you are, you made my made by posting this cryptic graphic. I had battled all day to make a simple virtualbox installation work for a training. I did not want to use vmware server as it does not provide snapshot facility (free software as it is); but virtualbox does. The first time I did an install, it was able to communicate to the outer network fine, but the second VM I installed was not able to do it. Then I realized that part of the issue was that the media was showing as disconnected for eth0 (NATed interface) on windows OS. I am trying out this approach by installing an Ubuntu guest OS on windows Vista and hope that it works out. Thanks for posting this again!
March 12, 2008 
Hi, I do not know who you are, but whoever you are, you made my made by posting this cryptic graphic. I had battled all day to make a simple virtualbox installation work for a training. I did not want to use vmware server as it does not provide snapshot facility (free software as it is); but virtualbox does. The first time I did an install, it was able to communicate to the outer network fine, but the second VM I installed was not able to do it. Then I realized that part of the issue was that the media was showing as disconnected for eth0 (NATed interface) on windows OS. I am trying out this approach by installing an Ubuntu guest OS on windows Vista and hope that it works out. Thanks for posting this again!
[...] started reading different posts on the internet and came across one very cryptic post at http://eligere.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/virtualbox-windows-tap-disconnected-message-remove/ , which had an interesting hack to make the status of Virtualbox TAP adapter as always connected or [...]
[...] reading different posts on the internet frantically and came across one very cryptic post at http://eligere.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/virtualbox-windows-tap-disconnected-message-remove/ , which had an interesting hack to make the status of Virtualbox TAP adapter as always connected or [...]