On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:26:52 -0500, you wrote: >On 01/20/2012 09:29 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> You probably misconfigured Firewall. >> >> I run Win7 for years, and no issues ! >> >> VBox NAT *always* give you 10.0.2.15 address in guest. (via DHCP). It >> *always* works. >> > > >Sorry, all - I think I'm confusing things or maybe I'm confused. What I >want to change is the IP address of the guest as the windows host sees >it. So from a win7 cmd prompt ipconfig will list the VB IP address. >That's the IP I want to change, not the one the linux guest reports >using ifconfig -a.
NAT networking mode means the quest (as seen on the LAN where the host is on) has the same IP address as the host itself. The VM behaves like an application that opens IP sockets. Thus, the guest has IP 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.x.y or whatever address the host has on your LAN. Perhaps you want to read http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_nat one more time, it is quite clear. > Thanks again! > > >- Tod > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Try before you buy = See our experts in action! >The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 >_______________________________________________ >VBox-users-community mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community -- Regards, Kees Nuyt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
