Network problems on Windows Vista?

[fterh]

Ever since I installed Virtualbox on my Vista x86 everytime I start my PC my firewall tells me new network detected. Is this normal? How do I fix this?

[Perryg]

I suspect that you had a problem with the install, more specifically the Windows UAC and unlike most at least yours works, albeit the annoying warning message. There may be a solution though.

• Reinstall VirtualBox by right clicking the install icon and left clicking run as administrator.
• Select repair when given the choice and then reboot after you have completed the re-installation.

[petrossa]

I've had this annoying problem also. Even worse, doing a ipcfg /renew takes 15 minutes to complete!

Solution, uninstall the Virtual Host Adaptor from the network devices.

[trex0314]

I have tried the Administrative repair and the removal of the Virtual host adapter from my host vista laptop and still cannot get them to talk. Any other suggestions?

[Perryg]

If you are still having problem with communications between guest and host after you have run the install as admin (indicated above) then you more than likely have a firewall issue. You will need to modify it to include communications between units on the same network segment.

[trex0314]

I added back the Virtual host adapter once I found it didn't fix the problem. Then did another administrative repair and that didn't work.

As for the firewall, I have turned off the firewall on both host and guest, no luck.
Any other suggestions?

[Perryg]

Post the network settings that you are using for this guest.

[trex0314]

Guest
IP 192.168.0.44
SM: 255.255.255.0
DG: 192.168.0.1

DNS: 192.168.0.16

Host:
192.168.0.160
255.255.255.0
192.168.0.1

192.168.0.16

[Perryg]

Bridged, NAT, Internal, Host-only? Can you ping the host from the guest and guest from the host?

[trex0314]

NAT, no pinging either way.

[Perryg]

Switch to bridged mode and you will be good to go, unless you want to do port forwarding to make this happen.

[trex0314]

When I tried bridged mode and went to boot the guest, I got an error message that there were no bridged adapters. So, I bridged my local area connection and the virtual connection and it still gave me the same error.

I am clearly missing something here.
I changed it to Host and am capable of pinging the virtual adapter from both host and guest but no further.
Thanks for your help here.

[trex0314]

I got it to work finally! Here is what I did:

Left it in Host mode. Configured my bridged connection with a local ip(192.168.0.46). Configured my Virtual host with 192.168.0.45. Configured my guest as 192.168.0.44. I cannot ping .45 from either side(host or guest) but I can ping .46 from both. I can also ping the host dg and yahoo. I was even capable of joining my domain. However, I had to reboot the guest before I ping it from various machines on my network.

Thanks for your help.