It’s probably completely blank for you if you’re reading this note. All I had to do to get it fixed was go to ‘VirtualBox’->’Preferences’->’Network’. I was able to reproduce the problem and fix it based on another reader’s suggestion.
Note B: I did a fresh vbox install to test this because some people weren’t seeing the vboxnet0 at this stage. I just had to go back and run the brand specific printer driver install (or manually change the printer driver for the printer added by the apple wizard) so that it would use the brand specific driver instead of the Apple default.
But that wasn’t it for me because Apple defaulted to an HP driver which caused the pages to print all tiny on my Epson. Note A: That wizard will allow you to print from the client using the printer on the host MacOSx machine. if the adapter is attached as Bridged Adapter, then do nothing (you have a reason to be Bridged?)Ĥ) Start up the Vbox machine – let it adjust to added Network Adapterĥ) Download and install from Apple “Bonjour Print Services for Windows” Ħ) start Bonjour Printer Wizard and follow the menus.Make it attached as Host-only Adapter and choose the name: vboxnet0 (see note B at the bottom if you can’t find this). if only one adapter selected and it is attached as NAT, then add Second adapter.System Preferences, Sharing, Check “Printer Sharing” and Check the printer.System Preferences, Print & Fax, Check “Share this printer on the network”.Then once you have the driver on the client do the following (found this at forum and quoted from here): Why? Because the apple software that I point you to below will install a driver by default that technically works, but it makes everything you print come out super small. The first thing I would recommend doing if you have a setup like mine is to find the driver for the printer that you need to print to. I finally got everything figured out though and figured I’d write it up real quick. Almost everything works great, but I was having a lot of issues getting printing to work. My most often used virtual client machine runs Windows XP.
I have an Mac OSx machine on which I have virtualbox installed.