SOLVED:vm ignores network port settings

[neuronetv]

I have a sun server with four network ports and I imported a vm that was made on another sun server (same machine). Problem is the vm was originally built with static ip's on each port but after being imported to another server the ip's are all stuck as dhcp. I ran the commands:

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VBoxManage modifyvm "linux-server" --nic1 bridged --bridgeadapter1 eth0
VBoxManage modifyvm "linux-server" --nic2 bridged --bridgeadapter2 eth1
VBoxManage modifyvm "linux-server" --nic3 bridged --bridgeadapter3 eth2
VBoxManage modifyvm "linux-server" --nic4 bridged --bridgeadapter4 eth3

but it made no difference. I also ran:

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vboxmanage controlvm "linux-server" setlinkstate1 on
vboxmanage controlvm "linux-server" setlinkstate2 on
vboxmanage controlvm "linux-server" setlinkstate3 on
vboxmanage controlvm "linux-server" setlinkstate4 on

but still no joy. I also went into webmin and set up all four network ports again with static ip's but on reboot the ip's are all different numbers given by dhcp. I also tried manually editing:

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/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s8
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s9
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s10

but still the ip's are not what they should be. I'm stumped here...

[Perryg]

What makes you think this is a VirtualBox issue? From what I see so far it looks like a guest setup problem.

[neuronetv]

if it's a problem in the guest I'm still stumped as to how to solve it.

[Perryg]

Last I checked Linux incorporated around 300+ different OSes so not knowing what the guest really is makes it impossible to tell you where to seek assistance, but if you know what the OS is you could ask the forum of the particular OS for network assistance as that would be outside the scope of this forum.

[neuronetv]

the host os is centos 6.5, the guest vm is centos 7, however I'm not so sure the problem is in the guest, I think I may be missing a vboxmanage command in the host that sets up the network ports for the vm but I can't figure out what it it.

[Perryg]

I also went into webmin and set up all four network ports again with static ip's but on reboot the ip's are all different numbers given by dhcp.

This is saying that as far as VirtualBox is concerned it has done its thing.
Question, can you ping the host from the guest and from the guest to the host using the addresses they actually have now? Also have you allowed for the traffic in any of your firewalls if you have them active? Are the machines in the same subnet?

[neuronetv]

I managed to get round this problem in a newbie sort of way....
In the guest I used nmtui (NetworkManager-tui) to set up the static ip's again from scratch. Restarting the network service failed however so I deleted the four enp0s* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and then the network service restarted. Then I did a reboot and (I think) the reboot generated a new set of enp0s* files and I had my original ip's back. Thankyou for your attention on this problem.