From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 00:47:04 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97A0106566B for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:47:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CEEC8FC12 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D9D1D33008 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:30:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22569-07 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (24-246-4-43.cable.teksavvy.com [24.246.4.43]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 517671D33006 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:29:59 -0300 (ADT) From: Hub- FreeBSD Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:29:57 -0400 Message-Id: To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: VirtualBox + Bridged Networking X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:47:04 -0000 First, I've searched google hi+low, and this is still eluding me =85 I've got a FreeBSD 8-STABLE box that is up to date as of yesterday =85 = VirtualBox installed great, I got through the docs on how to create a = Headless VM, it boots, FreeBSD 8 ISO installed on it, everything works = great "stand alone" =85 but I can't get the network to work. Host Machine, ethernet looks like: ganymede# ifconfig -a ale0: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu = 1500 = options=3Dc319a ether 00:22:15:f1:bc:c5 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: Ethernet 100baseTX status: active pflog0: flags=3D0<> metric 0 mtu 33200 lo0: flags=3D8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3D3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000=20 vboxnet0: flags=3D8902 metric 0 mtu = 1500 ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 ganymede#=20 showvminfo for the VM shows NIC 1 as : NIC 1: MAC: 080027F9E7B2, Attachment: Bridged Interface = 'vboxnet0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, = Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0 A cut-n-paste of ifconfig in the VPS is attached below... Yes, I can't ping anywhere =85 I tried to set the bridged device to the ale0 device, which allows me to = ping everywhere *except* the host server =85 so I'm missing a step here = =85=20 I've read through http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox several times =85=20= The steps i used to create the remote headless were found: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html So I figure either I'm bridging to the wrong device. or I missing a = configuration step on the Host side of things =85 but I can't seem to = find anywhere where someone has asked that and gotten an answer and/or = that it is documented =85 everything seems to point to using the GUI, = which, in this environment, I don' t have access to =85 So far, though, getting VirtualBox up and running has been fantastic ...=