Moritz Reiter schrieb: > I have some trouble with setting up NAT networking. I am running > VirtualBox OSE 1.3.6 on a Debian Etch host. I chose NAT networking and > booted a grml 0.9 Linux live CD as guest OS. In guest OS eth0 is > configured with IP address 10.0.2.15 and as gateway 10.0.2.2. According > to user manual that was done by a DHCP server provided by VirtualBox to > the guest OS and no further configuration should be needed. > The networking on the host OS is working fine but from the guest OS I > can only ping the gateway (10.0.2.2) but nothing else (nothing in the > internet and nothing in the internal net). Still name resolution seems > to work.
Expected behavior, reported several times and already documented in the manual for the next version. The NAT implementation in VirtualBox is purely user mode. As such it cannot send/receive ping packets (that would require superuser rights, see the permissions of /bin/ping). So VirtualBox currently doesn't even attempt to do normal pings across NAT. Any contributions which change this are welcome (except silly things like simply making VirtualBox SUID root). -- Klaus Espenlaub InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
