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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:24:29PM +0100, Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> It seems to work; it boots and I can do *almost* everything there, but I
> can't get network to work (pretty useless server!).
> 
> Problem is the NIC doesn't seem to be there... but is there!
> I mean:
> 
> dmsg says (I had to retype this because I have NO other access to this
> VM but VirtualBox window and that will not allow me to select/cut/paste
> text):
> 
> pcnet32: PCnet/FAST III 79C973 at 0xc020, 08 00 27 f5 7d 81 assigned IRQ 11.
> pcnet32: Found PHY 0022:561b at address 0.
> eth0: registered as PCnet/FAST III 79C973
> pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
> 
> ... but it doesn't seem to be there; e.g.: if I try to bring it manually
> up I get:
> 
> loki:~# ifconfig eth0 192.168.77.10 up
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> loki:~#
> 
> same (or similar) errors if I try via ifup; my current /etc/network
> interfaces is:
> 
> ======================
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>     address 192.168.77.10
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     gateway 192.168.77.1
> ======================
> 
> ** SECOND QUESTION **
> What should I check?
> I looked around and it all seems ok to me... but I obviously missed
> something.

On my debian guest, udev seems to like renaming the pcnet32 card from
eth0 to eth1. My suggestion would be to try configuring eth1 instead
of eth0.

> ** THIRD QUESTION **
> If and when I manage to have this work I would like to convert the real
> hd to a virtual disk.
> How can I do that?
> I found vague hints to "creating vdi with non-empty contents", but not a
> real recipe.
> Pointers welcome.

My suggestion here would be to image your real hd with dd, partition
image, or whatever else you'd like to use, then create a blank vdi
with the same or greater size, and just restore the backup to the
virtual hd.

Greg


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