Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:34:42 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues Message-ID: <AANLkTinTZu7ruWgczhi1cnVEg2-TTCqtsIgc3g0juY63@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinLdqsDfvy3DD_fc87bA4HbsnBCXXCof2nITOlC@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimVK-wuJHYgKrSDvZqUX0bzvCxvqNxMlhu7WFNG@mail.gmail.com> <D115453F-CB7C-4A51-94F7-08A6DBABE3FA@elvandar.org> <AANLkTil4n8KvCdsyZA2bv2H3xBBNiEikrBHT34cNQkzR@mail.gmail.com> <74457244-1BEF-473F-AF6B-7E16E852E1FD@elvandar.org> <AANLkTinK-xGRUltpCqlRt7Q2gqQ8NJ7taxhwFhZNeRNv@mail.gmail.com> <ACB9A9BD-06EF-4B03-B249-9E625D597C34@elvandar.org> <AANLkTik6BUufRlyTCMCTiYe5Rliaf6PO3XSPzdCFT-gN@mail.gmail.com> <F4A8CE5E-645A-449F-9459-DFF654FAF0E3@elvandar.org> <AANLkTinLdqsDfvy3DD_fc87bA4HbsnBCXXCof2nITOlC@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote: > Things I tried: > > With all three vbox module inserted into the kernel > > NAT, Bridge, with the PC-Net FAST Not able to ping anything (even the > gateway) I also tried ifconfig by hand > NAT, Bridge, and Host-only with the first intel card on the list. > Same response as above. > NAT and Bridge with 2nd Intel card used. DHCP worked under nat, but > was unable to ping the outside internet. > Bridge worked perfectly with DHCP and was able to talk to the outside > world. Bridge is preferred anyhow as I can set up a static with a > public IP for access from the outside world. > > My host is headless, so I am running virtualbox headless and it works > like a champ with the following command: > > # VBoxHeadless --vnc --vncport 5902 --startvm FreeBSD > > Note: I had a similar issue with a FreeBSD client running under > windows being picky as to which card I selected. This was a couple of > years ago. Also, I think I see the same issue with the system time > running wildly off from net time. On my old virtualbox system the > system clock was so unsteady that ntp would not even lock it down. > AFAIK, pinging from a VM set to use VirtualBox NAT has never worked on FreeBSD Host/Guest setup. TCP/UDP connections generally work though. This perhaps explains it more, http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1247 Bridged networking mode hasn't failed me since shortly after it was patched to work with FreeBSD. Make sure you are not bridging with wireless NIC's as I don't think those work yet. -- Adam Vande More
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