Problem with Host-Only

[nighthare]

I have 2 Host-Only Networks: vboxnet0 & vboxnet1 with IPv4 192.168.2.1 for vboxnet0 and 192.168.4.1 for vboxnet1.
First network works fine, but when a start guest OS on vboxnet1 something happens and VirtualBox changes ip on vboxnet1 to 192.168.2.1! What's wrong? I tried to reboot, to down and up interface, to sudo launch.. But every time I start guest OS on vboxnet1it changes ip!

[baf]

What does this look like?

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VBoxManage list dhcpservers

[nighthare]

NetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0
IP: 192.168.58.100
NetworkMask: 255.255.255.0
lowerIPAddress: 192.168.58.101
upperIPAddress: 192.168.58.254
Enabled: No

NetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet1
IP: 192.168.4.1
NetworkMask: 255.255.255.0
lowerIPAddress: 192.168.4.101
upperIPAddress: 192.168.4.254
Enabled: No

I don't use dhcp.

[baf]

Ok what does this give?

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VBoxManage list hostonlyifs

If that is not correct try using

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VBoxManage hostonlyif       ipconfig <name> --ip<ipv4> [--netmask<ipv4> (def: 255.255.255.0)] |
                            --ipv6<ipv6> [--netmasklengthv6<length> (def: 64)]

To correct it.

[nighthare]

Before launchine virtual machine it's correct:

Edit: VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Name: vboxnet0 GUID: 786f6276-656e-4074-8000-0a0027000000 Dhcp: Disabled IPAddress: 192.168.2.1 NetworkMask: 255.255.255.0 IPV6Address: fe80:0000:0000:000027ff:fe00:0000 IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64 HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:00 MediumType: Ethernet Status: Up VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0 Name: vboxnet1 GUID: 786f6276-656e-4174-8000-0a0027000001 Dhcp: Disabled IPAddress: 192.168.4.1 NetworkMask: 255.255.255.0 IPV6Address: fe80:0000:0000:000027ff:fe00:0001 IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64 HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:01 MediumType: Ethernet Status: Up VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet1

After launching Virtual Machine it's changes -

Edit: Name: vboxnet0 GUID: 786f6276-656e-4074-8000-0a0027000000 Dhcp: Disabled IPAddress: 192.168.2.1 NetworkMask: 255.255.255.0 IPV6Address: fe80:0000:0000:000027ff:fe00:0000 IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64 HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:00 MediumType: Ethernet Status: Up VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0 Name: vboxnet1 GUID: 786f6276-656e-4174-8000-0a0027000001 Dhcp: Disabled IPAddress: 192.168.2.1 NetworkMask: 255.255.255.0 IPV6Address: fe80:0000:0000:000027ff:fe00:0001 IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64 HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:01 MediumType: Ethernet Status: Up VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet1

[baf]

Well I think your out of luck then see this from the manual

Host-only networking. Creation/deletion of host-only adapters are supported
for Windows hosts only presently. On other platforms, there is one fixed hostonly
interface called “vboxnet0” presently. This will change in a future release.

But it can't be far off as it tries to do it so in a few releases....
You could try adding a ticket to the bugtracker if it should work and the manual is wrong.

[nighthare]

Thanx a lot!)
I'll try to add a ticket)

[zachad]

I'm very interested in a solution to this as well. It appears there is already a ticket for it, but not much activity on it recently.

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4014

Has anybody else had any luck?