Cisco VPN: Same Windows Guest, Different Hosts (Win/Linux)

[bybor]

Hi.


I have windows xp sp3 guest with cisco vpn setup working fine under Windows 7 x64 host. Bridged network.
When I try to use that vdi (without export appliance, but directly, re-creating new virtual machine with VDI attached from windows partition) it can't connect to VPN ("Authorization failed"). Network also "Bridge" from GUI settings.

I've tried running the same guest on different Win hosts (Vista 32bit, Seven 64bit) and it worked fine.

Using VirtualBox version 3.0.8 (binary distribution from virtualbox.org for lInux) under Zenwalk 6.2

using search gave few topics with connecting to VPN problems and some of them recommended creating bridge network connection manually, but i'm not sure if it makes sense with latest (3 version) VirtualBox?

It would be great to hear, if someone had similar setup working on both Linux and Windows - just to make sure it's possible. I supposed that host platform can't influence guest behavior, but looks like i was wrong.

Any hints will be welcome including directions to read manuals

Thanks

[vbox4me2]

Might be linux restricting port use eventhough using bridge.

[sej7278]

cisco's vpn client is well known for not working well on linux.

still it seems odd that it doesn't work on a linux host as the guest is what matters.

openvpn and pptp vpn's work fine on my linux host and win/lin guests, not sure if i've ever tried ipsec in vbox.

[MarkCranness]

re-creating new virtual machine with VDI attached from windows partition) it can't connect to VPN ("Authorization failed").

Does the Cisco VPN bind to / check the MAC address of the guest network card perhaps?
If you manually re-created new VMs, the network card in each will have a different MAC.
Settings>Network>Adapter n>(Orange cog - Additional options tool)>Guest MAC Address on one VM and then copy that value to the other VMs. Perhaps a file compare between the different machine xml files to see if any other significant differences.

[bybor]

Might be linux restricting port use eventhough using bridge.

Not sure it can cause "authentication error" message, but i don't know anything about the way it works. In my case connection is established, but after providing user name/pass it fails.

AFAIK Zenwalk doesn't use any kind of firewall in default setup, but have to check it

[bybor]

Does the Cisco VPN bind to / check the MAC address of the guest network card perhaps?
If you manually re-created new VMs, the network card in each will have a different MAC.
Settings>Network>Adapter n>(Orange cog - Additional options tool)>Guest MAC Address on one VM and then copy that value to the other VMs. Perhaps a file compare between the different machine xml files to see if any other significant differences.

It didn't help, to my regret. I've tried setting the same MAC address. I've used the same VDI on different Windows hosts re-creating VMs, and it worked fine without MAC address setting.

[bybor]

openvpn and pptp vpn's work fine on my linux host and win/lin guests, not sure if i've ever tried ipsec in vbox.

Can't go with other tools. I could also do re-setup of Cisco VPN in VM under Linux, but it's done by remote admin. Just couldn't think that host OS is important in such a case