Host-only networking on Win7 64-bit with Ubuntu 9.10 guest

[ryan]

Hi,

I'm using VirtualBox 3.0.6 on Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate RC and with the latest Ubuntu beta (9.10 Karmic Koala x86)
as the guest. NAT networking works fine, but host-only doesn't seem to work at all. Any host-only
interface on the guest fails to get an IP address with DHCP and if I set one statically it still can't ping the host.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Ryan

[Perryg]

Host-only will setup a second adapter.
Run ifconfig in a terminal on the guest and ipconfig /all on the host to see the addresses.
You can change the address scheme and turn on DHCP in the VBox program under file -> preferences -> network.

[ryan]

Virtual-box host-only adapter exists in Windows 7 and is enabled, with host IP 192.168.56.1.

DHCP is enabled under File -> Preference -> Network (with the default settings, assigning 192.168.56.101 to 192.168.56.254 to guests).

"ipconfig" /all output (after info about the host's LAN connections):

Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-00-27-00-F0-99
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter isatap.{4458F94F-8003-4347-B048-2EFE72F5803A}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:d5c7:a2d63a3afe98(Pref
erred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80:3a3afe98%13(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Tunnel adapter isatap.{CCCFFF5D-D8A6-48DC-86C2-D60268873C95}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

[ryan]

And as I said, it doesn't work.

[Sasquatch]

An ifconfig -a on the Guest? Tried running dhclient as root from a terminal? Do you have a firewall running on the Host? The default Windows one blocks ICMP ping. Can you ping the Guest from the Host?

[ryan]

Todays update (3.0. has fixed the bug. Thanks.