Hi,

I have the very same problem, even the IP address of my guest is identical
to yours.

My environment is:

VirtualBox OSE 1.3.3 running on Slackware 11 as host, with a guest running
Windows XP Media Center Edition. I configured NAT for the guest network
connection.

My naive expectation was that the guest would now get just a new IP address
within my home network from my router/switch. But instead it got 10.0.2.15
from ... s o m e w h e r e ...?

I too can surf the internet and use WindowsUpdate and so on. I just cannot
connect to my host, as I would have to tunnel my ISPs firewall then from
the outside. Not sure if I have the skills to do this... ;-)

I think it's possible to set up the guest OS with a fixed IP address
manually, but I tend to think there must be a cleaner way.

Solution of this issue is vital, as only then I can use scp to transfer data
between host and guest, for backing up data created on the guest, eg.
Without some reliable way of exchanging data I am hesitating to actually
use the guest for production.

Thanks for any help!

Alex



Bo Berglund 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?
> 
> Bo Berglund



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