upgrade to hardy killed VirtualBox network access

[Nils Kassube]

Edmund Ĺaugasson wrote:
> I upgraded Kubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 and VirtualBox 1.5.6 to 1.6.0 and also
> reinstalled guest additions in WinXP SP2 virtual machine but cannot
> acces to network anymore.
>
> I use host interface so I have vbox0 and br0 (eth0+vbox0=br0) virtual
> network interfaces and also ifconfig shows them. I also use registered
> MAC address at my router. I fixed the new MAC address, so it
> corresponds as in router described but no success.

A few days ago NoOp mentioned on this list that there is a bug in 1.6.0 
which prevents correct network operation. It will be fixed in version 
1.6.2, so I think you should better go back to version 1.5.6 until the 
release of 1.6.2.


Nils