Comments on: VirtualBox 3.0.4 and Bridged Networking on XP Host with GUI

By: Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:11:54 +0000

@Alain – Thanks for the feedback and glad to hear you found the post helpful.

By: Alain C

Alain C — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:10:42 +0000

Ed,

Thanks!!

Switched to Vbox as vmware wouldn’t address wireless (ubuntu server guest) (vista host); Vbox worked immediately. After 2 months (time allowing) still couldn’t get
get either talking to each other.

Followed your suggestions, 2 minutes later & everything is working!!!

Great post!!

By: Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:14:49 +0000

Craig – That’s excellent! Glad the post was able to help.

Kit – Strange.. Can you reach a web site using a dedicated IP instead of domain name.
Example:
http://74.125.45.100/
instead of
http://google.com

if you can, it might support your DNS question. Perhaps the DNS servers are not set properly for the XP Guest?

By: Kit C

Kit C — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:15:18 +0000

Well this is strange…
For kicks n giggles I changed the Bridged Host interface to my Wireless LAN Device and started up Fedora11. Now Bridged mode is working. So it would appear, possibly there is an issue with Win7 host Intel NIC driver not passing DNS. If I figure it out, I’ll be sure to post.

By: Kit C

Kit C — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:08:19 +0000

Configuration on my host and VM are exactly as you have described but I am having the same issue as Andrew M.
Host: Windows 7
VBox: Fedora 11 x64

If the Network for the Vbox machine is set to Bridged Mode I can get to IPs all day long but am not able to get DNS to function in the Vbox machine. Strange that its only DNS that does not work. nslookup, dig @, ping, on the VBox host all fail.

If the network is changed to use NAT then DNS works fine.

By: Craig Smith

Craig Smith — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:27:40 +0000

Great post as like yopu point out the manual is vague and most posts out there are for older versions. I was 99% there after changing to bridged mode, but your note on changing the network adapter kicked it home for me – THANKS!

By: Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:48:46 +0000

Hi Andrew. Based on the fact you can ping external IPs and host names from both the host and the guest, I’m guessing your networking settings are correct. I don’t have a XP guest running on an Ubuntu Host to poke around with.

Some thoughts.
Have you tried another browser? (firefox, opera, safari)
Does the error happen for all/every page you try to open?
Have you tried to connect to other services (ftp, ssh, telnet) on remote systems?

I googled ‘Page cannot be displayed’ and the titlebar is ‘Invalid Syntax Error’ and there were a lot of results with different cause/solutions available but it appears that there is a problem with IE somewhere. Sorry I couldn’t be more help.

By: Andrew McCombe

Andrew McCombe — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:38:50 +0000

I have this working fine except that I can do no web browsing from within XP. I have Ubuntu 9.10, VirtualBox 3.0.8 and have installed Windows XP SP1.

From XP I can ping both internal and external IP addresses and can also ping external domains such as google.com. However, when I launch IE6 and try browsing I get ‘Page cannot be displayed’ and the titlebar is ‘Invalid Syntax Error’.

I am using Bridged adapter to eth0 and have tried all the Adapter types.

Regards
Andrew

By: Reigneer Nabong

Reigneer Nabong — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:46:14 +0000

Hi Ed,

There was a review submitted under Virtual Machine – Sun Microsystems, and it was for VirtualBox. We decided to re-classify the page to be Java Virtual Machine / VirtualBox. If you wouldn’t mind posting your review/rating on VirtualBox, I would greatly appreciate it.

Please let me know if I can provide additional information.

Thank you and have a great weekend.

Best regards,

Reigneer

By: Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:06:30 +0000

@Reigneer Nabong
Reigneer,

Thanks for stopping by and commenting. The VBox Additions won’t do much for a headless VM Server, but they do add some features and function between the Guest and Host when run in a graphical environment.

Add VirtualBox as a product to your list and I will be happy to add my comments.

Thanks Again

-Ed