On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Atishay Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have virtualbox installed on Windows Vista. I installed Kubuntu and
> Solaris 10 on virtualbox.
>
> I want to communicate from vista to Solaris and Kubuntu machines so that I
> can do remote debugging of a program running on Solaris/Kubuntu.
>
> I added a Virtual Box Host Interface on Vista and configured it to use
> DHCP. I set up Networking for Kubuntu to use Virtual Box Host interface.
>
> After running kubuntu, I notice that its ip address is different from what
> Virtual Box Host Interface has.
>
> .....On Windows..........
> Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host Interface 1:
>
>    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::1d82:d367:e086:f54c%30
>    Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.245.76
>    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
>    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
>
> ...........
>
> -----On  Kubuntu-------
> etth2:avah inet addr : 169.254.3.355
> ..............
>
> My questions
>
> a) Shouldn't kubuntu have same ip as the virtual box Host interface
>
> b) I am able to ping both IP's from command line (cmd) but other
> applications are not able to connect to 169.254.3.355. They simply report
> that host does not exist?
>
> All Applications inculding ftp, ssh, telnet do not work as they find that
> host does not exist.



On Kubuntu, I am able to do this now. I am able to ssh and other connections
are working fine.

On Solaris, I do not get an IP at-all. I configured it to use Virtualbox
Host Adapter and I tried to configure Solaris for DHCP (I don't know how
Kubuntu got IP??). It did not work saying that it could not contact DHCP
server.

Atishay



>
>
> c) What should I do ensure that two-way communication happens Guest and
> Host OS
>
>
> Thank You
>
> Atishay
>
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