On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:38:26 +0100, Bo Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am new to VirtualBox and as a test case I have installed Ubuntu >6.06.1 desktop. >In contrast to Microsoft VPC2004/VPC2007 all went well up until I can >log in and examine the desktop. :-) > >Now I have a networking question: >The guest network card is DHCP enabled but for some strange reason it >has obtained an address that is set to 10.0.2.15 even though the DHCP >server on my network distributes addresses in the range >192.168.0.129-254. >From where did it get that strange address??? > >When I used VPC2004/2007 from Microsoft this did not happen, the guest >machine properly used the network DHCP server and obtained an address >in the range that enables it to communicate with other machines on my >network. But not this VirtualBox guest... > >What should I do in order to make the Ubuntu guest get the proper IP >address from my network DHCP server??? >I suppose it is a property of the VirtualBox emulator? > Forgot to mention my host data: - VirtualBox 1.3.2 downloaded today - Windows XP Pro SP2 - 1Gb RAM - DualCore Pentium processor 2.8 GHz - Local network with a DLink router acting as DHCP server - ADSL connection to the Internet With the erroneous DHCP address Ubuntu got I cannot ping it from my host and still for some unknown reason it is able to reach the Internet... I am just letting it download updates and it seems to work, how can that happen???? Bo Berglund _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
