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Cannot get network connection between the host (Win 7- 64bit) and the guest (Win2008 - 64bit).
Firewalls turned off, static IP addresses used, network discovery turned on.

What network mode are you using on the guest? NAT? then switch to bridged or host-only.
See Chapter 6 of your VirtualBox users manual.

Hi!

I'm also having a similar issue. I have 2 VMs running on Windows XP SP2. My VirtualBox OSE is on a Ubuntu 11.04 host.

Both VMs, when their adapter is set to NAT, can navigate the web and such easily.

Once I set them in internal or host-only, they can ping themselves and the host. They are unable to ping each other, access shares and such. I'm not a newbie to windows networking so I'm pretty sure the issue is more towards how the networking is handled with my current setup in VirtualBox.

After reading the entire network section twice and trying both internal network (named "aoe" for both vms) and host-only options, I'm not sure what else to do.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Well, today I've learned to never take VMs from someone else without thoroughly checking EVERYTHING, including the MAC addresses of the VMs.

I think my friend might've created the 2nd VM by cloning the 1st one and forgot to change the MAC addresses... since he never had to network them together, I guess he never noticed that "problem-to-be".

So, my problem is now fixed and I now know a lot more about VirtualBox's networking configurations than I ever expected

Thanks to anyone who took time to look at my last post