On 01/21/2012 06:25 PM, Kees Nuyt wrote: > 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. >
Ok, good read - its been a while since I set this up, configure and forget I suppose. It must be my port forwarding. I'm trying to ssh to my linux guest and getting a connection error. My first thought was that the locally configured firewall options (that I have no control over in this case) on the host were blocking the guests IP address. Thanks for the refresher. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
