Network link interrupted while negotiating connection

guillermo · Post by **guillermo** » 14. Jan 2009, 01:04

I currently have VirtualBox 2.1.0 with Ubuntu 8.10 as host and Ubuntu Server 8.10 as guest.

I want to access a development server in the guest from the host. I tried attaching the guest to the host interface, by pointing the browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/, but that failed. I then attached the network adapter on the guest to NAT and forwarded the 8000 port. After that I could see the 8000 port open with a port scan on 127.0.0.1, but after trying to access the address from my browser I get this:

"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."

Am I missing something?

Post by **Sasquatch** » 15. Jan 2009, 00:58

With HIF, you need to connect to the IP of the VM, not to localhost from the Host.
NAT port forwarding is broken in 2.1.0, so don't use it.

guillermo · Post by **guillermo** » 15. Jan 2009, 02:24

That makes sense. Thanks