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Hi Everyone:

After many steps, I finally got my Windows XP VM functioning. My next step is to figure out how to get my internet connection working. With my Windows 7 VM, this was automatic but not with XP. I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this. Thanks!

Why not first reading the manual about the right network settings.

You must understand this. Not only know where to activate a checkbox or something like that.

After reading and understanding post again, if there are problems. But then with details and not with "does not work".

Details are:

Host Internet Connection
Exact Guest Settings
VBOX Version
Logfile
Screenshot of the guest device manager (network settings)
and so on ...

Stefan, I am not averse to reading manuals. I do it all the time. However, I am finding the VirtualBox user manual to be very technical and not that helpful to more novice users like myself. I tried locating sections that would help with my internet connection and not seeing anything applicable. Here is my configuration:

My host internet connection is via a standard comcast hi speed service. My host is a macbook pro running the latest Snow Leopard OS. My Windows 7 VM works with this internet connection just fine. Is there some way of seeing what is happening there and duplicating it with my XP VM?

When you say exact guest settings, where would I obtain this?

I'm running the very latest VBOX version, just released. Logfile is below:

VirtualBox 4.1.4 r74291 darwin.x86 (Oct 3 2011 16:38:58) release log
00:00:01.270 Log opened 2011-10-18T13:00:03.633737000Z
00:00:01.270 OS Product: Darwin
00:00:01.270 OS Release: 10.8.0
00:00:01.270 OS Version: Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
00:00:01.272 DMI Product Name: MacBookPro7,1
00:00:01.274 DMI Product Version: 1.0
00:00:01.275 Host RAM: 8192MB RAM, available: 2816MB
00:00:01.275 Executable: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/VirtualBoxVM.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBoxVM
00:00:01.275 Process ID: 28660
00:00:01.275 Package type: DARWIN_32BITS_GENERIC
00:00:01.275 Installed Extension Packs:
00:00:01.275 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: 4.1.4 r74291; VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP)
00:00:01.433 SUP: Loaded VMMR0.r0 (/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VMMR0.r0) at 0x8050b020 - ModuleInit at 0000000080521790 and ModuleTerm at 0000000080521820
00:00:01.433 SUP: VMMR0EntryEx located at 0000000080522850, VMMR0EntryFast at 00000000805229e0 and VMMR0EntryInt at 00000000805218a0
00:00:01.492 File system of '/Users/howardnew/VirtualBox VMs/Windows XP/Snapshots' (snapshots) is hfs
00:00:01.492 File system of '/Users/howardnew/VirtualBox VMs/Windows XP/Snapshots/{5708f399-c469-4fc8-bd23-5311cd850365}.vmdk' is hfs

Regarding the Guest Device manager, please specify where I would take this screenshot. I'm not clear on it.

Thanks.

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