What are the names of my network adapters? (Vagrant related)

Question

I'm trying to use mVagrant to set up a bridge on the correct network adapter.

I keep getting this message:

Specific bridge 'Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection' not found. You may be asked to specify

Using ipconfig on the host machine (Windows), I found these:

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:

Are these the names of the host adapter adapters that I can choose? If so, my host machine is connected via wifi right now so isn't the second one "Wireless LAN..." the correct choice for the host adapter?

More context: In the Vagrant documentation, I was told to choose the host adapter I wanted to bridge:

If more than one network interface is available on the host machine, Vagrant will ask you to choose which interface the virtual machine should bridge to. A default interface can be specified by adding a :bridge clause to the network definition.

Here is what I have in Vangrantfile:

config.vm.network "public_network", ip: "10.0.1.99", bridge: "Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection"

Solution

In Windows it's a bit messy.

What you want to do is to use VBoxManage.exe list bridgedifs to list the possible bridge interface names (the actual names are device names, not connection names which you see in ipconfig output)

VBoxManage is probably not in your %PATH% but you can find it in Virtualbox's dir.

You also can just copy the device name from Connection Properties in Control Panel.

Comments

[atripes]

I had to use vboxmanage list bridgedifs in OSX to get the desired interface names. ifconfig does not print the full interface names. Thanks for your help.

[George M Reinstate Monica]

Note it's NOT the 'Network' name in VirtualBox manager.

[Buttle Butkus]

If you have git bash installed, you can edit your ~/.bashrc file and add this alias so that you can use vboxmanage without the full path: alias vboxmanage='C:\\Program\ Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox\\vboxmanage.exe'