NAT over WiFi

rudy · Post by **rudy** » 22. Jun 2008, 09:58

Dear all:

I cannot connect to the internet from VB guests via NAT. I understand from various posts that this is because of connecting my Mac to the internet over the WiFi (Airport Extreme) interface. I beg you: Has anyone found a workaround? I do not have any wires at home nor at work! WiFi only! Please help !!!

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I have installed VB 1.6.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 with an Ubuntu 8.04 guest (JeOS). I have used the default network settings, that is NAT. I have worked with this exact setup with VB under linux and with Parallels under the Mac without any problems...

Thanks a lot for any advice or pointers!!!

Rudy

P.S.: To the VirtualBox developers: Can you fix this, please?!!? Or at least warn about it in the release notes so that we do not have to investigate this when the network does not work?? Thanks!!!

ForrestB · Post by **ForrestB** » 22. Jun 2008, 16:31

I'm not running Linux as a guest OS, but wireless access under Windows XPSP2 Guest works fine under VirtualBox 1.60

rudy · Post by **rudy** » 22. Jun 2008, 17:25

ForrestB, thanks for your response. Could you be kind enough to post more details on your config? You installed VB on OS X 10.4, created a VM with default NAT and WinXP, and the networking just works?!! Does the connection appear to the XP as if it were wired ethernet even though it's really WiFi outside of VB?

Or did you have to configure something differently than just the default NAT networking? Or did you have to do anything to your firewall in OS X? You use 10.4, correct?

Thanks a lot, I am really stuck!

Best of luck
Rudy

ForrestB · Post by **ForrestB** » 28. Jun 2008, 16:04

I'm running VBox 1.60 under the latest version of OSX 10.5.2

In VBox, I've checked 'Enable Network Adapter' and 'Cable Connected'. The adapter type is PCnet-Fast III (Am79C973) which is attached to NAT

The OSX Firewall interface is very simplified in OSX 10.5.x, and wireless access under Windows XP works in both 'Allow all incoming connections' and 'Allow only essential services'

rudy · Post by **rudy** » 28. Jun 2008, 16:41

Thanks, ForrestB. I guess it might have something to do with 10.5 versus 10.4 that I use. Under Windows, the connection appears wired, right? Thanks. Rudy

ForrestB · Post by **ForrestB** » 28. Jun 2008, 20:02

Yes, under Windows it appears to be a 100 Mbps wired connection with a locally assigned IP address (10.x.x.x)

rudy · Post by **rudy** » 29. Jun 2008, 05:40

Thanks ForrestB, I appreciate it!

Anyone else has a positive experience / workaround for the Tiger 10.4 setup? I still did not make the AirPort work with the NATed VB 1.6.2 running Ubuntu JeOS 8.04...

Thanks a lot, have a great day.
Rudy

hkogekar · Post by **hkogekar** » 2. Jul 2008, 03:13

I have a a win XP guest with Os/x Tiger. I had to set DNS for my ISP address in the TCP/IP set up on the windows for the wireless network to work. I had to do that for the 1.5.51 as well as 1.6.2 versions of Vbox. Hope this helps.

rudy · Post by **rudy** » 2. Jul 2008, 18:22

Thanks, hkogekar, but that is not my case. I cannot get any packets through even if I use IP addresses...

Thanks, Rudy

clydemoreno · Post by **clydemoreno** » 11. Jul 2008, 13:23

hkogekar wrote:I have a a win XP guest with Os/x Tiger. I had to set DNS for my ISP address in the TCP/IP set up on the windows for the wireless network to work. I had to do that for the 1.5.51 as well as 1.6.2 versions of Vbox. Hope this helps.

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NAT over WiFi

NAT over WiFi

That totally worked for me. Thanks.