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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="networkingdetails">
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| 4 | <title>Virtual Networking</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>As mentioned in <xref href="settings-network.dita#settings-network"/>, <ph
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| 8 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> provides up to eight virtual PCI Ethernet cards for each
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| 9 | virtual machine. For each such card, you can individually select the following: </p>
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| 10 | <ul>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p>The hardware that will be virtualized. </p>
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| 13 | </li>
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| 14 | <li>
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| 15 | <p>The virtualization mode that the virtual card operates in, with respect to your physical networking hardware
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| 16 | on the host. </p>
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| 17 | </li>
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| 18 | </ul>
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| 19 | <p>Four of the network cards can be configured in the <b outputclass="bold">Network</b> section of the <b outputclass="bold">Settings</b> window in <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>. You can configure all eight network cards on the command line using <userinput>VBoxManage modifyvm</userinput>. See <xref href="../cli_topics/vboxmanage-modifyvm.dita"/>.</p>
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| 20 | <p>This chapter explains the various networking settings in more detail. </p>
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| 21 | </body>
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| 22 | </topic>
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