I wonder if you could help please.
Thank you very much
My Environment:
VirtualBox: 5.0.4
Host OS (lenovo-pc): Windows 8.1
Guest OS (linuxVM01): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
I have installed and configured Suse Linux as a guest OS and everything is working fine as expected, except for the hostname which I can't ping from the host Windows system. The guest OS has the firewall disabled and it can ping the host OS by ip and by hostname however the host system can ping the guest system by ip address only.
The Linux guest system can access the Internet and shared folders on the Host system without any problems.
I have also mapped ip to hostname in both hosts file Windows and Linux
The virtualbox Network is configured with Host-only adapter in adapter 2 tab and I don't have any DSN server setup.
Below more information on my configuration:
Test From the Windows Host:
Tests from The host OS:
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c:\>ping 192.168.56.10
Pinging 192.168.56.10 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.56.10: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.56.10: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.56.10: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.56.10: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.56.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms
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c:\>ping linuxVM01
Pinging linuxVM01 [192.100.56.10] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.100.56.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
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Pinging FQDN:
c:\>ping linuxVM01.home
Pinging linuxVM01 [192.100.56.10] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.100.56.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
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c:\>NSLOOKUP 192.168.56.10
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1
*** UnKnown can't find 192.168.56.10: Non-existent domain
c:\>NSLOOKUP linuxVM01
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: linuxVM01
Address: 81.200.64.50
c:\>tracert linuxVM01
Tracing route to linuxVM01 [192.100.56.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 19 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
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c:\>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 4:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 3:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a1ed:e01d:eb50:cfef%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.9
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80:
7296:45ca:62fa%5IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.8
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : SWDL27.WDS
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Tests from The Guest OS:
linuxVM01: # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:E5:2B:E0
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00
fee5:2be0/64 Scope:LinkUP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:322 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:557 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21618 (21.1 Kb) TX bytes:34525 (33.7 Kb)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:B7:EB:B3
inet addr:192.168.56.10 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00
feb7:ebb3/64 Scope:LinkUP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:406 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:48426 (47.2 Kb) TX bytes:20259 (19.7 Kb)
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:255356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:255356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:80712644 (76.9 Mb) TX bytes:80712644 (76.9 Mb)
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linuxVM01# ping lenovo-pc
PING Lenovo-PC (192.168.56.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from Lenovo-PC (192.168.56.9): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.337 ms
64 bytes from Lenovo-PC (192.168.56.9): icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.985 ms
64 bytes from Lenovo-PC (192.168.56.9): icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.416 ms
64 bytes from Lenovo-PC (192.168.56.9): icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.612 ms
64 bytes from Lenovo-PC (192.168.56.9): icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=0.703 ms
64 bytes from Lenovo-PC (192.168.56.9): icmp_seq=6 ttl=128 time=0.439 ms
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linuxVM01: # cat /etc/hosts
#
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
# special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
fe00::0 ipv6-localnet
ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
192.168.56.10 linuxVM01.home linuxVM01
192.168.56.9 Lenovo-PC
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