Possibly OT: networking under VirtualBox

[aditya]

try using a static ip instead for your guest OS

Thanx & regards
Aditya

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone else out there has done this more successfully.
>
> I used to run VMware Server 1.08 under CentOS to run my WinXP guest
> since I rarely need to use Windows at all, but once in a while....
>
> Since VMware does not seem to like Maverick, I followed suggestions
> here to use VirtualBox, which installed nicely and, with some
> arm-twisting and a little welding, I was able to convert the VMware
> .vmx into the more standard (now) .ovf and the WinXP guest comes up.
>
> But:
>
> 1) It can't see my on-board network, so it can't reach the internet or
> even the local (router) network.
>
> 2) It keeps finding some base hardware component that it doesn't
> identify and can't seem to install.
>
> (These may be related....)
>
> Most importantly I need to get the guest to recognize the network
> because I remote mount via samba eight virtual drives for shared
> access between the host and the guest, and some of the installed apps
> depend on seeing a remote mounted D: drive that is currently
> invisible/inaccessible.
>
> I was using NAT, but obviously the way VMware did that and VB does
> that are not the same or, apparently, compatible.
>
> Before I used NAT, I was using bridged mode, but since that gives the
> guest the same IP address shared with the host, that makes the remote
> mounting of the samba drives impossible.
>
> I realize that this is more of a VB question than Ubuntu, per se, but
> if anyone has any similar experience or wise suggestions here, I'd
> appreciate the input.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark
>
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