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Hi,
I have searched thru the old posts and read the manual but I have not found a simple solution to what I would think to be a common issue.

I have VBox 3.1.0 r55467 hosted on Mac 10.6.2 running a Windows 7 client.

At work we have a setup which requires we use a certain DNS address and our computers (MacBook Pro 15" 2007 for me) are connected via ethernet cable. In order to connect to this network, in Windows 7 I need to ensure to manually set the DNS server address is manually set under Local Area Connections I have the DNS Server address for Internet Protocol Version 4. My Network Adaptor settings for VBox need to be set to Bridged Adapter and Cable Connected.

At work I use Comcast Internet over WiFi. To use the internet I home I need to login to change my Network Adaptor settings for VBox to NAT. I then need to login to Windows 7 and change my Local Area Connection settings for Internet Protocol Version 4 to Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically.

Seems to me there should be a way to set a couple profiles up where I just change one setting and not need to go through all these changes. I only need to make the changes a couple times a day so it is not that big of a deal.

Thank you in advance for your help

BlazeToast wrote: Seems to me there should be a way to set a couple profiles up where I just change one setting and not need to go through all these changes. I only need to make the changes a couple times a day so it is not that big of a deal.

If it would be enough to avoid manual DNS server list configuration for you, so probably you need: please see http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserMa ... lver_proxy for more details.

Thanks for the pointer. That did work, but not at first.

Maybe it has to do with my guest having two interfaces, one NAT and one host-only. Anyway, I did have to shutdown my guests, and exit virtualbox, then restart everything. Then, my guest's /etc/resolv.conf had the IP of the host on the NAT interface and it seems to be working now.

BTW, that seems like a pretty long key name for the setting. How many internals are there like that? Is the "Advanced Topics" section an exhaustive list, or are there more?

I am running 3.1.2 on Snow Leopard with an XP 64 guest and experienced pretty much the same issue. When I unplugged the ethernet and let wireless take over, the guest had to be rebooted in order to regain network connectivity (Also same as Ticket #3487).

I issued the command above and now I can not start the VM. I get the following error:
Configuration error: Failed to get the "MAC" value
(VERR_CFGM_VALUE_NOT_FOUND)

Unknown error creating VM (VERR_CFGM_VALUE_NOT_FOUND)

Details...
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole

I tried setting the value back to zero but get the same error.


Aside, this host network switching (and in general using a host's DNS resolver) seems like a pretty common scenario, especially for laptop users. Maybe it should be easier to set; perhaps a simple checkbox in the Network setting config?