VirtualBox Host problem

[Karl Larsen]

Christopher Bianchi wrote:
> hello ! i've correctly set up Ubuntu Server as guest on last version of
> Sun Virtualbox (directly from repository virtualbox).
>
> Only a problem:
> from the host system, a Ubuntu 8.04 hardy (not server edition, with
> guy), i can navigate, communicate to all, but i can't do only a thing:
> ping outside from lan. 
>
> i'll show you:
>
> ienabellamy at charlotte:~$ ping www.google.it
> PING www.l.google.com (74.125.39.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> --- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
> 10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9009ms
>
> So, the portforwarding (for bittorrent, emule etc...) for the HOST os,
> NOT WORKS. So, the portforwarding (server web, ssh, etc..) for the GUEST
> os, WORKS.
>
> My /etc/network/interfaces is this:
>
> #LOOPBACK INTERFACE
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> #eth0 INTERFACE
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual 
>
> #vbox0 INTERFACE
> auto vbox0
> iface vbox0 inet manual
>     tunctl_user ienabellamy
>
> #br0 INTERFACE
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
>     post-up chmod 666 /dev/net/tun
>     post-ip tunctl -t vbox0 -u ienabellamy
>     address 192.168.1.10
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     broadcast 192.168.1.255
>     gateway 192.168.1.1
>     bridge-ports eth0 vbox0
>     bridge-ageing 7200
>     bridge-fd 0
>
> Host and guest MUST use a static ip as you can see.
>
> Anyone helps would be appreciate!
>
>
>   
    Chances are good that your computer can't see a dns so it can't 
figure out the IP address of things. Try this:

ping 206.190.60.37

and see if it works. This is the ip for yahoo.com :-)

If it fails you have a networking problem.

Karl


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