I am impressed with you willingness to help from the other side of the
world. Thank you so much for your help.
Below is the output you asked for. I have only one VM at present. A
friend suggested dig -s 10.0.0.244 to find the name of the printer, since I
wanted to avoid the complications of ip address not fixed. But it seems
that 10.0.0.244 is the web address of the embedded web server. I do not
know if that is what is accessed when printing. But the dig output did not
produce a name that I could see. And I see that I can specify a fixed IP
address in the printer, so that may not be a concern. And I agree that I
need to turn off the "direct" access to the printer.
I cannot think of why I would want to have access to the guest from the
host. You can see that I use a shared folder to allow me to pass data
between the two. If there are other reasons I would want to have that
access I am open to suggestions.
denis@denis-ThinkPad-L420:~$ for i in $(vboxmanage list vms | awk '{print
$2}'); do echo "INFO:
> vboxmanage showvminfo $i"; vboxmanage showvminfo $i; done
INFO:
vboxmanage showvminfo {f54caf05-a7ed-450e-be1a-94865fef7e5c}
Name: Win2kSP2
Groups: /
Guest OS: Windows 2000
UUID: f54caf05-a7ed-450e-be1a-94865fef7e5c
Config file: /home/denis/VirtualBox VMs/Win2kSP2/Win2kSP2.vbox
Snapshot folder: /home/denis/VirtualBox VMs/Win2kSP2/Snapshots
Log folder: /home/denis/VirtualBox VMs/Win2kSP2/Logs
Hardware UUID: f54caf05-a7ed-450e-be1a-94865fef7e5c
Memory size: 500MB
Page Fusion: off
VRAM size: 16MB
CPU exec cap: 100%
HPET: off
Chipset: piix3
Firmware: BIOS
Number of CPUs: 1
PAE: off
Long Mode: off
CPUID Portability Level: 0
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode: message and menu
Boot Device (1): Floppy
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: off
Time offset: 0ms
RTC: local time
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Nested Paging: on
Large Pages: off
VT-x VPID: on
VT-x unr. exec.: on
Paravirt. Provider: Default
State: powered off (since 2017-10-10T00:59:08.000000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Tracing Enabled: off
Allow Tracing to Access VM: off
Tracing Configuration:
Autostart Enabled: off
Autostart Delay: 0
Default Frontend:
Storage Controller Name (0): IDE
Storage Controller Type (0): PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Bootable (0): on
IDE (0, 0): /home/denis/VirtualBox VMs/Win2kSP2 Clone.vdi (UUID:
617a86c4-a14a-4fbb-b4b7-f5e3fe0d6297)
IDE (1, 0): /home/denis/.config/VirtualBox/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.18.iso
(UUID: 71defe8b-0622-4b63-98a0-880e5acb88f8)
NIC 1: MAC: 080027D66D3F, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'wlp3s0',
Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported
speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
NIC 5: disabled
NIC 6: disabled
NIC 7: disabled
NIC 8: disabled
Pointing Device: USB Tablet
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
UART 3: disabled
UART 4: disabled
LPT 1: disabled
LPT 2: disabled
Audio: enabled (Driver: PulseAudio, Controller: AC97, Codec:
STAC9700)
Clipboard Mode: disabled
Drag and drop Mode: disabled
VRDE: disabled
USB: enabled
EHCI: disabled
XHCI: disabled
USB Device Filters:
<none>
Bandwidth groups: <none>
Shared folders:
Name: 'win2kfiles', Host path: '/home/denis/win2kfiles' (machine mapping),
writable
Video capturing: not active
Capture screens: 0
Capture file: /home/denis/VirtualBox VMs/Win2kSP2/Win2kSP2.webm
Capture dimensions: 1024x768
Capture rate: 512 kbps
Capture FPS: 25
Guest:
Configured memory balloon size: 0 MB
denis@denis-ThinkPad-L420:~$
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 2:22 AM, Tomas <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is command line which prints your full VirtualBox configuration:
> for i in $(vboxmanage list vms | awk '{print $2}'); do echo "INFO:
> vboxmanage showvminfo $i"; vboxmanage showvminfo $i; done
>
> Post the output here if you are still stuck with the printer
> Please check the test for sensitive info - if you have any in the
> notes/description, and include only the problematic Windows VM if you
> have more than one configured
>
> - Tomas
>
> On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 18:19 -0700, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> > Dennis,
> > I have another question:
> > > Do you need to connect to your windows VM from the host or another
> computer/phone on the network?
> >
> > > > I am thinking that it maybe easier to provide a guide how to
> configure you vBox network rather than to debug your issue - over
> this mailing list.
> >
> > > > If I would to provide guidance on fresh network configuration for
> unsupported and unpatched windows - I would probably suggest simple
> NAT setup as it provides little more isolation for you windows.
> >
> > > If you need to directly connect to your windows from the host or the
> network then bridging setup would be more appropriate.
> >
> > > Depending on your answer, there are pretty good guides available.
> Please see if you could follow one of them.
> >
> > The networking in vBox is pretty well described in:
> > http://virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html
> >
> > > Depending on your need (NAT or Bridge) try to follow the appropriate
> section of this tutorial:
> > https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-network-sharing.html
> >
> > > > Note: The tutorial uses host IP examples in 192.168.x.x You on the
> other hand use 10.0.0.x - that is OK - keep your host network
> settings - do not get confused about it when following the tutorial.
> >
> > > If you choose NAT then you host and windows guest IPs should be on
> different networks.
> >
> > > If you choose Bridging, your internet router should assign IP to your
> windows guest in the same 10.0.0.x range.
> >
> > > > In both instances, you will be connecting to your 10.0.0.244 printer.
> Please note that the printer's IP might change occasionally by your
> router, unless configured as static.
> >
> > > As already mentioned, I would disable all other networking stuff such
> as internet/HP/cloud printing on the printer.
> >
> > > I hope it helps, for anything else go to PLUG clinic on the right
> Sunday.
> >
> > Tomas
> >
> > > > On Oct 10, 2017 7:19 AM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeow...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 10/09/2017 03:14 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> >
> > > > Progress. I got the ip address of the printer from
> settings/network in the
> >
> > > > host, pinged it from the host, then pinged it from win2k. Both
> were
> >
> > > > successful. But then I found out that the host could not connect
> to the
> >
> > > > router/modem until I shut down win2k in VB! So it appears that
> either the
> >
> > > > host is connected to the router/modem or it is connected to the
> printer.
> >
> > > > This is not the usual way the host connects to the printer, as I am
> able to
> >
> > > print without losing my internet connection. The address was
> >
> > > > 192.168.223.100. I need to get rid of this direct connection to
> the
> >
> > > > printer. Then how do I get the (proper) ip address for the
> printer?
> >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --- snip---
> >
> >
> >
> > As
> >
> > > Tomas mentioned, this sounds like something screwy with the host-
> guest
> >
> > bridging setup in that when VB+Win2K fires up, the guest has sole
> >
> > ownership of the NIC. Thus, the laptop host goes "dark".
> >
> >
> >
> > you said (?)the printer is on wifi and uses DHCP (not fixed IP). The
> >
> > printer IP address is from the wifi router and has nothing to do with
> >
> > either host or guest OS. You can get the Printer IP by using the
> >
> > printer front panel to print a Network status page, or log in to the
> >
> > > router web GUI (http://10.0.0.1) to see what IP is assigned.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Some printers can advertise over wifi for direct connection. You
> will
> >
> > > want to turn that off inside the printer configuration settings.
> Either
> >
> > page through the printer front panel or use the printer web GUI
> >
> > > (http://10.0.0.244)
> >
> >
> >
> > -Ed
> >
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