XP guest Duplicate IP conflict

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euclidsbrother
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XP guest Duplicate IP conflict

Post by euclidsbrother »

Hi.. I'm runing Ubuntu 8.10 host with XP guest (VB2.1.0) and had the network card set to "Host Interface", so it would be part of our larger network. Whenever XP boots up and periodically after, it throws up an error saying that it's IP address conflicts with another IP on the network. I know that it does not, there are only a few deviced on the network (home network).

The first time it was set to DHCP and it got a good IP that has not ever been used. Then I changed it to static IP and gave it an IP that I know has never been used and still got the error.

Changing to NAT mode instead of Host Interface does not give the error, but then I can't access it via other computers on the network either.

Any ideas why this happens?

Thanks
-EB
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Post by euclidsbrother »

I should also note that even when the error pops up, the network is working. I can access the internet from my guest and even joined the Domain.

-EB
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Post by Sasquatch »

This is a known issue with the new HIF system. Windows reports there is an IP conflict while there is none. This is possibly the cause of how VB uses the interface. It first tries to use the MAC address specified in the VM settings, and if that fails, it will use the hardware branded MAC address. This should be fixed already, or is in the process of being fixed.
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euclidsbrother
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Post by euclidsbrother »

Thanks, Sasquatch, for the info :)
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Post by winol5 »

Yeah right this issue doesnt affect navigation in the windows guest xp, but I'm testing windows 7, and it just blocks the internet for this issue it doesnt even try to work!, and I think this should be the same with vista since both OS are very similar, using HIF is a problem but it enables my wireless printer to work with xp so... windows 7 could die....
tmy
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Post by tmy »

Works for me with couple of NIC's (all Wireless).

Works:
D-Link DWL-G510 (PCI)
D-Link DWL-G122 (rt73usb)

Not working
ZyDAS ZD1211 802.11b/g USB WLAN (zd1211rw)

First i installed whole system with a D-link DWL-G510 (PCI) and everything works fine. Still, i wanted to found a better signal with my AccessPoint and tried my ZyDAS USB-wlan. Ubuntu works ok, but Virtual-XP tells right this IP coflict issue. And i was what a... i got only one computer.

I found another USB-wlan "stick" and tried that. It was D-Link DWL-G122 (rt73usb). I rebooted (just in case) and started my virtual-xp and everything works just fine.

-Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as a host. (Kernel: 2.6.24-23-generic)
-VirtualBox 2.1.0
-Win XP SP3 as a guest.
--
~$ lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)
05:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 07d1:3c03 D-Link System

-tmy-
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