From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 21:55:24 2010 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8F9106566C for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:55:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f49.google.com (mail-fx0-f49.google.com [209.85.161.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAD08FC13 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so2794089fxm.36 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:55:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=iJMYKHB6oCd3PHRRcH4+RHxC9AQnk6NiYKY90z6Sz6s=; b=CN+4N5f5puSwyKTgXlwAqIiv2PlSoNdiOEJ1vy2HhpVPkDckLEuFtbKGzhMcf5sygU pGygQYUxkxJX+PLC0xKynTcMYl/1aMTBZyrXJR2Jj1GeUKVdy6xOy/0e3QgVDeEunwV4 f+0YuTkAr4w3N/00lq8HYsoIe5f2lTn6tTnks= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=u0D3BrLzLtxkO7hB8ofmHSzQI9RUEiI4ZUWlI3FqBdp9oVjbu+brKzQ35PYMYhm37q AsK/dA2OcnHnk35E02OwbCIqrPWyYvD2FCXpDr3HTCBAvg9Iaevjr84OSMMZkDE6BmBk +OYIALPKs+Sf71H3ary/Ei3XMqtiIxEbI2byw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.96.76 with SMTP id g12mr1578971fan.32.1291931722721; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.107.79 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:55:22 -0800 (PST) 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> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:55:22 -0600 Message-ID: <AANLkTikzRuo9oWxxz9AEL47Ms9CfO+fnaAOF3ofB6+9g@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Weihang Wang <weihang@vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Timm Wimmers <timm@ticore.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:55:24 -0000 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