Networking

[dbeyes]

Hi I have a Windows 8 running virtualbox - the windows 8 networking is good however My guest Oracle Lnux 6.4 network is not working. Anyone have a basic doc or instructions on getting my network set? My network adapter 1 - attached to "NAT" adapter Type "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop(8254oem) cable connected. When I try to ping any site I get unknown hosts.

[Perryg]

Do either of the following reply as good?

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ping yahoo.com
ping 98.138.253.109

Post the results of ifconfig -a from the guests terminal

[dbeyes]

the ip address returned connect: network unreachable
yahoo ping returned unknown host

[Perryg]

And the last part of my question?

[dbeyes]

sorry not a easy way to get that uploaded - tried a screen shot into a word doc but to large to upload. anything specific you look for? - I can type it in

[Perryg]

There are several ways to upload it.
If it is a desktop version you can select and copy it to the clipboard ( requires guest additions to be installed and enabled in the devices tab of VBox )
You can take a screenshot of it from the host and upload the attachment. ( may need to compress it ) But you should not need to place it in a word doc. Save as jpg or png.
or the hard way type exactly what it says.

Note: use the upload attachment at the bottom of the reply window

[dbeyes]

ok attached - Thanks

[Perryg]

NAT should work when nothing else does ( to get to the Internet ) but not in the local LAN.
Give me an idea of what you are going to want to do with this guest so I can advise you further.

Off hand the only thing that would keep this from getting to the Internet is a firewall or virus software on the host.

Also post the guests log file ( as an attachment )

[dbeyes]

the only thing I am doing here is to get my oracle VM manager installed and running so I can manage my oracle vm server. I didn;t have a extra 64 bit machine to install on so I am using virtualbox to install a Linux os then install the vm manager. At this point I have a Linux install however I know that I will need to connect to the vm server so I just wanted to get basic network up.

[Perryg]

OK so you are going to need to access your LAN and you probably should use bridged for that. Do you have a router on your LAN?

Provide the results of the following:

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cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

[dbeyes]

I have a uverse modem -> netgear prosafe 16 port gigabit switch everything else plugs into that. I have attached the ifcfg-eth0 file info.

[Perryg]

So it looks like you have changed it to Bridged and the info suggests that it took and should be working. Does it?
Do you get an address like 192.168.1.* in the guest?
Can you ping 192.168.1.1 from the guest?

[dbeyes]

No I have not changed it and no it does not work.

[Perryg]

Your ifconfig shows 10.0.*.* and your cat shows 192.168.*.*
the 10.* is the VBox NAT address and the 192.* is the bridged address.
Select Bridged in the guest settings and see if it works. If not then you are going to need to fix the guests network config.

[dbeyes]

ok changed to bridge and pinged - attached a screen shot