My experience after running VirtualBox and VMWare is that usually these
kinds of problems are related to a firewall issue. Best option is to turn
on logging and look at what is going on.
Gerry
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Giles Coochey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/09/2012 18:42, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
>
>> *hears crickets only*
>>
>> Come on, nobody can suggest anything at all?? Is there any other list
>> that I should be sending this inquiry to instead?
>>
>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:43:24 -0400, Casey wrote:
>>
>>> On 28 Aug, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:56:50 -0400, Casey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am attempting to run VirtualBox 4.1.20 on Gentoo Linux (kernel
>>>>> version 3.4.9 with matching header versions to the running kernel,
>>>>> and cannot get host-only networking to work.
>>>>>
>>>> I have found that executing the following by hand will correct the
>>>> situation and allow the vm to boot:
>>>>
>>>> ifconfig vboxnet0 10.79.64.1/24
>>>>
>>>> so why isn't this happening automatically?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I run my VirtualBox under Windows so things may be different. The
> network address and whether a DHCP server runs is generally configured
> within the GUI, File --> Preferences --> Network, under the preferences for
> the network adapter in question.
>
> You appear to be saying that these options are not being taken by the
> adapter.
>
> My previous experience of Gentoo is that it can have some particularly
> complex configurations, ebuilds in portage are developed by a wide range of
> people and the QA that goes into their development process prior to
> inclusion into portage may create situations which could cause difficulties
> with a wide variety of other packages.
>
> Can you provide information into the vboxnet configuration within the GUI?
> Are you running VirtualBox as root, or another user?
>
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>
> Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS
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