WTF? VirtualBox 2.2.2 makes a fake network connection?

[hoffstetter]

So I updated virtualBox on my laptop (running win7) and it created a fake network connection. One of the reasons I preferred virtualbox to vmware was that it didn't make an extra network connection or run a bunch of background stuff when there were no vm's running.
So what does this connection do? I promptly disabled it, and my vm's seem to work fine without it.

 

[criccio]

Just disable it, no harm done.

Just set your VM's to Bridged and they pull IP's from you DHCP server just fine.

If you don't know what it is, they you aren't the kind of person who needs them.