SOLVED: there was an error configuring your network interface

[neuronetv]

I have centos 6 and virtualbox 5.1 running on a hp laptop and i'm trying to install the freepbx-12 distro as a virtual guest machine but the install keeps failing with 'There was an error configuring your network device."
I've tried both dhcp and manual ip settings but it doesn't work.
The nic in the hp laptop is Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139. I expect freepbx-12 is incompatible with this nic but I'm only guessing I know one can configure virtualbox to make the guest machine think it has a different type of nic, is there one that will work with freepbx-12?
I've tried:

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vboxmanage modifyvm "freepbx-12" --nictype1 82543GC

but it made no difference. Are there any tricks I can do with virtualbox to make this work?

[neuronetv]

bump, anyone?

[Perryg]

The virtual adapter that the guest will see is not the same as that on the host. Use the default that was chosen for you ( Intel Pro 1000 desktop ) when you created the guest.
I used Linux 64 bit ( newest ) and bridged. Only other things I changed were the size of the virtual drive and increased the RAM to 2048.

[neuronetv]

ok thanks but the default nic that was chosen for me did not work, the installation of the guest vm stopped with "There was an error configuring your network device" and the install would not proceed. Is there a command I could use to change the virtual nic back to Intel Pro 1000 desktop?

[Perryg]

You changed it your self to 82543GC

"vboxmanage modifyvm "freepbx-12" --nictype1 82543GC"

Just change it back to the original 82540EM. (Same command ) Then fix the issue. Are you doing all of the from command line because the host does not have a desktop?


If you need to continue this topic post the following information

• From the hosts terminal/command window type VBoxManage showvminfo <VM Name> --details and post here. Replace <VM Name> with the actual name of the VM. Use " " if the name has a space in it.
  
  Note if the host is Windows you need to be in the directory that has VBoxManage.exe for the command to work.
  
  As well as
  
  Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

[neuronetv]

solved:
I was running virtualbox-5.1 on the host so I removed it and installed virtualbox-4.3 and now the freepbx-distro is installing fine as a guest vm. There's obviously an incompatibility.....

[Perryg]

Maybe for you but it runs fine for me on.

[neuronetv]

hmm that is strange because I tried installing the freepbx distro as a guest on two different host machines, both running centos and virtualbox-5.1 and both would not work until I went back to virtualbox-4.3 on the host machines. Are you sure it's the free-pbx distro you have as a guest? which distro is it? Is your host machine linux or windows? is your machine a GUI install or command line only?

[Perryg]

hmm that is strange because I tried installing the freepbx distro as a guest on two different host machines, both running centos and virtualbox-5.1 and both would not work until I went back to virtualbox-4.3 on the host machines. Are you sure it's the free-pbx distro you have as a guest? which distro is it? Is your host machine linux or windows? is your machine a GUI install or command line only?

1) FreePBX-64bit-10.13.66.iso
2) My Host OS is custom built Debian type, compiled and modified extensively by me and has a DT ( cinnamon-ish also modified by me ) but that should not matter at all if you know how to use CLI ( I use both server and DT ).

It works for you at 4.3 but there have been a lot of fixes and some are for security. It might be due to CentOS but for that you would need someone that actually has CentOS as a host to help you fix this.