Which VirtualBox howto is best?

[Karl Auer]

Which VirtualBox HowTos have people used successfully?

I'm having trouble understanding what's going on with VirtualBox
networking, and the various HowTos out there sometimes don't make sense.
That doesn't mean they are wrong.

This one, for example:

   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox

... is great, right down to the heading "Edit One System File On The
Host Machine". From that point on, I don't understand what they are on
about :-) Can anyone explain what the taps and tuns are *for*?

[And why VirtualBox needs all this and VMWare "just works"?]

Regards, K.

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