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  <title>Virtual Networking</title>
  
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    <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> provides up to eight virtual PCI Ethernet cards for each virtual machine. For each such card, you can individually select the following: </p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p>The hardware that will be virtualized. </p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>The virtualization mode that the virtual card operates in, with respect to your physical networking hardware
          on the host. </p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p>Four of the network cards can be configured in the <uicontrol>Settings</uicontrol> for a virtual machine, listed in <uicontrol>Machines</uicontrol> in <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>. </p>
    <p>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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