network problems (bridge & nat) linux guest

[johnruss]

Hi,
I'm new to VirtualBox and using 3.2.10 r66523 on Snow Leopard Server on a Mac Mini (2009).
I want to run apache and Oracle Express on Fedora Core 6 guest.

1) Using a bridged network with the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop simulated adapter it appears
to work well initially but after a while (hour or so) the networks stops. There was a post about
this that suggested using the paravirtual adapter but I was not able to find a driver for the
Fedora Core 6 guest.

2) then I tried the NAT this also worked well but I needed to set a fixed address on the guest
not a leased one. The port forwarding worked fine under dhcp but did not work with a fixed
ip address. These commands failed to set-up a connection

VBoxManage modifyvm "FC6OXE" --natpf1 "guestssh,tcp,,2222,10.0.2.19,22"
VBoxManage modifyvm "FC6OXE" --natpf1 "guestoracle,tcp,127.0.0.1,1521,10.0.2.19,1521"

Any help greatly appreciated.
John

[johnruss]

I managed to get Oracle XE working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server with VirtualBox and solve the problem of the bridged networking stopping by using Oracle Enterprise Linux instead of Fedora Core 6. The look and feel of the Oracle Linux was very similar making the switch straight forward.