Be sure that you install the guest add-on in your guest OS'es first. After you do that, NAT networking works just fine. If you want to use anything Host Interface or Bridged Network, then you really have to know networking well AND read the docs.
I have both fc7 and winXP hosts running 1.6. On fc7 host, setting up Host Interface requires more work. I had posted 3 scripts way back when which were hacked kludges to make Host Interface networking work. On winXP host, Host Interface is simpler, but still not clean. For example, the VirtualBox Host Interface is not configured automagically by vbox. You have to set it up manually, which still means you have to have some basic knowledge about windows network interface sharing. Also, when using winXP as host, the guest OS ends up disabling eth0 and using eth1. However, it fails to configure eth1. So you have to do it manually, and you have to set the route manually also. JD Josh Trutwin wrote: > Hi - posted something to the forums last week but no answers there. > It looks like there are some host networking issues with 1.6, but I > am having trouble with even simple NAT networking. I've upgraded > from 1.5.6 to 1.6.0 on three different computers, all 3 have OpenSuSE > 10.3 as the host and Windows 2000 as the guest. All three have NAT > networking, but one never worked from the get-go with networking, one > worked for about a week but as of this morning no longer works after > rebooting guest OS, and my laptop still seems to work though for how > long I don't know. I've tried the Intel 1000 NIC but that didn't help > (installed drivers via CD). > > >From what I see they don't ask for an IP from the DHCP server > anymore. Any ideas? This basically renders my guests as completely > useless and I'm going to downgrade at least one of the installs to > 1.5.6. > > Let me know what other info is useful to troubleshoot. > > Thanks, > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
