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Log of VBoxNetDHCP ?

Posted: 7. Feb 2018, 13:04
by gdargaud
Hello all,
is it possible to get a log of what VBoxNetDHCP is doing ?
I don't see anything in MyVM/Logs/VBox.log or ~/.VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log

The reason is that I'm trying to boot a test real-time OS in a VM and it doesn't get an IP, only a 169.* dummy IP. I've tried various modes (NAT, host-only, etc)

A 'ps' tells me that it's running as:

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/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP --ip-address 192.168.15.3 --lower-ip 192.168.15.4 --mac-address 08:00:27:C4:C3:66 --need-main on --netmask 255.255.255.0 --network natnet1 --trunk-type whatever --upper-ip 192.168.15.254
I killed it and launched it from the command line, adding -v, -vv, -vvv and I get this when I boot my VM:

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frame: cb=0052 dst=ff ff ff ff ff ff src=08 00 27 dc b2 07 type=0800
Any idea what is going on ?
Thanks

Re: Log of VBoxNetDHCP ?

Posted: 7. Feb 2018, 17:48
by socratis
I'm not sure that you're supposed to launch VBoxNetDHCP from the command line... And no, there's no log AFAIK...

Re: Log of VBoxNetDHCP ?

Posted: 12. Feb 2018, 11:37
by gdargaud
Well, launching from the command line didn't seem to break my other VMs, they could boot and get their IP just fine.

Re: Log of VBoxNetDHCP ?

Posted: 12. Feb 2018, 11:48
by socratis
That doesn't mean that they were using the same instance of VBoxNetDHCP.