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When I run an Operating System in VirtualBox using NAT Everything works fine

It's when I change it to Host Interface Networking it seems to just completely shut off my keyboard, both in the VM and outside, shutting down the VM doesn't fix it either, I have to reboot the host to restart the keyboard

It mentions in the manual I need access to /dev/net/tun, if thats the issue, how do I get access?

I'm using Debian Etch if that helps!

/dev/net/tun is only needed if you need the virtual interfaces in HIF mode. Since 2.1.0, that's no longer needed as VB can use the physical interface directly.

So what could be causing my keyboard to cut out when I Choose the direct interface networking?

That maybe a question you can't answer anyways, but is there a command I can type in using SSH to reinitialise the keyboard?

So Guys,

Is there a way to fix this problem ?

I have a Debian 4.0 Etch with Virtualbox on it !

Ok after a wile searching on google + 6 cups of coffee and almost no hair on my head i fount this in my messages

# tail -f /var/log/messeges

kernel: EIP: vboxNetFltLinuxXmitTask+0x17/0x178

I googled and googled and found the fix! hope you will like it too

Start the Debian Etch host and b4 starting VB just go to /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c and look for the line

--> INIT_WORK(&pThis->u.s.XmitTask, vboxNetFltLinuxXmitTask, NULL);

and change it to

--> INIT_WORK(&pThis->u.s.XmitTask, vboxNetFltLinuxXmitTask, &pThis->u.s.XmitTask);


And then run the command #/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup to rebuild the kernel module...

Reboot the system and everything seem to work just fine!

Thank god now i can go and finish up the w2k3 installation

Cheers,

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Jesse Mirza
IT Consultant
JAMESNET
Opensource Business Solutions

Works Flawlessly now, thanks for the help jesseNL