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unix/linux Network not working on VBox 4

Posted: 7. Jan 2011, 12:01
by gruntgulp
I just upgraded VBox to 4.0.0 R69151, the host is W7 Home Edition 64 bit.

I had two virtual machines (Fedora 14 64 bit and Solaris 10 32 bit) with bridged NIC (the guest NIC is Intel PRO MT Desktop the host one is a Atheros Wireless).

As soon as I completed the upgrade from VBox 3 to VBox 4 both the virtual machines are no longer able to start the network connection.

I reinstalled the Fedora one (trying the old good "restart from zero" option) even on the fresh install fedora is not able to start the network connection.

I tried to install an XP virtual machine and everything works fine

do you have any suggestion ?

thank you!

Re: unix/linux Network not working on VBox 4

Posted: 7. Jan 2011, 22:36
by iamalittlepepper
I've found it you go back to the Settings and recheck the advanced setting especially the Network Adaptor emulation, change to a different one then change back.. it seems to work.

What does ifconfig say when you are in the Linux VM?

Re: unix/linux Network not working on VBox 4

Posted: 8. Jan 2011, 14:18
by gruntgulp
Now it works!

thank you!

I read your request to look to ifconfig after applying your suggestion: this is the ifconfig print out of the working configuration :?

thank you again

Roberto

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:90:BB:76
inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe90:bb76/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9393 (9.1 KiB) TX bytes:5889 (5.7 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd020

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 b) TX bytes:480 (480.0 b)

Re: unix/linux Network not working on VBox 4

Posted: 25. Jan 2011, 23:48
by gruntgulp
the network of the Fedora running within a virtual machine does not works once more :( the solution "iamalittlepepper" suggested now doesn't works

the ifconfig result is:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:90:BB:76
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe90:bb76/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4999 (4.8 KiB) TX bytes:3204 (3.1 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd020

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 b) TX bytes:480 (480.0 b)

may you help once more?

thank you

Re: unix/linux Network not working on VBox 4

Posted: 27. Jan 2011, 08:38
by gruntgulp
Hi all,

today everything works fine. I did nothing.

it looks that VBox 4 has some youth problem with networking....

Roberto