Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:39:47 -0500 From: Weihang Wang <weihang@vt.edu> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Timm Wimmers <timm@ticore.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access Message-ID: <28A98D03-BDCA-4857-9CE2-4D5DC10E4BBC@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=YGEvTMRsTyx%2B7JEK0r1E89Kt81u4ciOWzTND0@mail.gmail.com> 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> <AANLkTi=YGEvTMRsTyx%2B7JEK0r1E89Kt81u4ciOWzTND0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Dec 9, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Weihang Wang <weihang@vt.edu> wrote: >=20 >> Hi, >>=20 >> 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? = 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. >>=20 >> 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? >>=20 >> When running dhclien em0, the results are similar to the DHCPDISCOVER >> results during booting. No DHCPOFFERS received. >>=20 >=20 >=20 > It would appear that Ubuntu has not correctly installed the bridging > adapter. Did you check out the links I provided on setting up a = bridging > device on Ubuntu w/ vBox? They worked for me, I set up an Ubuntu VM = and in > the VM setup a test VM of vBox to boot fbsd (8.1 in my case). >=20 > NOTE: I do not recoomend setting up a VM within a VM, I did it = strictly as a > test to boot and get network access. Which it did. > ______________________________________________ Hi, I am sorry I don't know which page you refer to... I am confusing now = cause first, I don't know which mode could be best for my needs. What I = need is two VMs on a real machine, these two VMs could communicate with = each other. It seems bridged mode is suitable here. But there is no = network access for bridged mode.=20 BTW, when I use NAT mode, two VMs get the same IP address, and they = could not get to each other. Thanks, W.W.
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