Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:55:22 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Weihang Wang <weihang@vt.edu> Cc: Timm Wimmers <timm@ticore.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access Message-ID: <AANLkTikzRuo9oWxxz9AEL47Ms9CfO%2BfnaAOF3ofB6%2B9g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F64D1AE5-48CC-4A19-9CDF-9F74ADAD9B9F@vt.edu> References: <BD9E30A7-919D-4145-A6B6-A9A086B6D7C2@vt.edu> <4CF87854.1030103@mgwigglesworth.net> <EA5E99C7-AA29-4D8B-BBAD-F1463C7B1CDA@vt.edu> <1291368354.2905.19.camel@SHR-42-002> <9B3337B8-3F20-4369-A637-207DEE43A143@vt.edu> <AANLkTikqz_0hhBRjsLYQh5wUn0xvJtC9UF7u7J7zYrGy@mail.gmail.com> <F64D1AE5-48CC-4A19-9CDF-9F74ADAD9B9F@vt.edu>
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Weihang Wang <weihang@vt.edu> wrote: > I do not configure a DHCP server. When my FreeBSD 6.0 is booting, there are > several DHCPDISCOVERY messages, finally it shows no DHCPOFFER received. Do I > need to configure a DHCP server myself? If I need a DHCP server? Bridged networking makes the guest behave like another physical installation with respect to networking. If your network doesn't have a DHCP server then for DHCP to work one is required. You don't need DHCP for networking however, you could simply assign static addresses. > Where it should be? Now I only have one test machine, Ubuntu as the host > OS, two VMs (both are FreeBSD 6.0) on this machine. I want this two VMs > communicate with each other. > Why are you using such an old version of FreeBSD? Just go back to the DHCP stuff, when I use NAT mode, the guest OS FreeBSD > 6.0 could get DHCPOFFER successfully. Who is the DHCP server then? > In NAT mode, VirtualBox provides it's internal DHCP server. When running dhclien em0, the results are similar to the DHCPDISCOVER > results during booting. No DHCPOFFERS received. > -- Adam Vande More
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