Virtualbox on Ubuntu 8.10 network problems with XP

[Jonesie]

I have virtualbox 2.2.0 running on Ubuntu 8.10.

I have a XP VM running and am having trouble setting up networking.

I would like the VM to use the host interface wlan0. I've tried using NAT which hasn't worked so trying the host interface option with these settings:

NIC: Host Interface
NIC Device: Am79C970A (don't actually know what this is but have tried all from dropdown list)
Host Interface: wlan0 (also tried tap0)

When I run the VM i get the following error:

Sun VirtualBox SDL GUI version 2.2.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Failed to power up VM! Error info:
Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)

Can anyone help me set up NAT or the Host Interface?

Cheers,
Jonesie

[Perryg]

NAT has a problem (fixed in next update) but have you tried Bridged mode? Also you might want to reinstall VBox and choose repair. There was a problem with the installer.

[Sasquatch]

This error occurs when the kernel module for the Bridged option isn't installed properly. Please run

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sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and try again. Make sure that you have the kernel headers installed, as those are needed to be able to create kernel modules.

[Jonesie]

Hi thanks for the replies.

I've tried:

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sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

which didn't work so i unistalled VB and installed everything through synaptic and now VBoxGtK will not open!

virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose-source
virtualbox-ose-gues-source
vboxgtk
virtualbox-ose-dbg
virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

Any idea's why?

Cheers,
Jonesie

[Sasquatch]

VBoxGTK is not a part of VB. VB uses a Qt interface. Remove the OSE version, purge it's config and install the PUEL version from the website. Make sure that you have the kernel headers and build-essential packages. After that, it should all work.