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Hi guys

I have installed Virtualbox 4.0.4 and have installed a Solaris Guest system and I am trying to get network working but I ma not having much luck.

Here are some notes:

1 - The host OS will be moved between completely different networks relatively often (Including network with proxy behind it)
2 - I don't care about accessing the guest OS from outside
3 - I want to have internet access from the guest OS
4 - The guest OS has to have a static ip address due to applications installed in it requiring it.

Now from the notes 1, 2 and 3 I figured NAT is what I need because all other 3 types of network (Host-only, Bridged and Internal) will either not give me internet (Failing note 3) or will not work when I move the host OS to a completely different network (Failing note 1).

Also due to note 4 I think NAT is ideal because all other 3 would require me to change the guest OS network settings to the same network settings of the network I am sitting on which would force me to change IP.

The problem arises with note number 4. I have setup my solaris to ip 10.0.2.15, netmask 255.255.255.0 and default route to 10.0.2.2 but it seems that I still cannot get internet working, am I missing something? Could the fact that I am sitting behind a proxy (right now) be the issue? I made sure to configure the proxy in the browser of the guest OS but I am uncertani if there is anything that needs to be done on VB itself, I could not find any proxy configuration in the preferences.

Also before it gets mentioned, I read and re-read and re-read again chapter 6 and also chapter 9 but I am no network guru so maybe I am missing a point or misunderstood something.

Any help is welcome.

Regards
NooK

Check the VirtualBox FAQ for network troubleshooting, then come back here with the results.

Thank you.

I did not see the FAQ thread. Problem is solved.

The issue was DNS. I changed the proxy in the browser of the guest OS to the proxy's IP address rather than the address name and immediately got internet. It would certainly be nice to not have to meddle with proxies if VB could take such a setting as an input and handle the proxy translation between guest OS and host OS transparently (It's a lot easier to change in one place in the VB software than in 100 different places in the OS).

This leads me to 2 other questions, would I be able to change the network settings of the guest OS to something else (For example set ip = 192.168.100.100 and default route = 192.168.100.1) or is it required that you use the values I am currently using (Mentioned in chapter 6)?

The other question is just if my assumption that, if I use a bridged network adapter instead of NAT I would have to set the same network settings as the network requires me to (Within same domain and everything), is correct?

Regards
NooK