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

By: hichmeu

hichmeu — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:43:22 +0000

Hi all
I have some difficulties configuring network for a Windows2003 guest on Windonws7 host. I have 2 NICs configured on host (as bridged adapters in virtualbox) but none of them is working correctly on guest windows2003. I tried to enable only on adapter, seen by the guest but never connected. DHCP client is activated on windows 2003 but it can’t reach the dhcp server. All firewalls are disabled.
The strangest thing is that the same guest is working fine on another XP host…
Can anyone help me ?
thanks in advance

By: Actiorrot

Actiorrot — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:45:33 +0000

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By: syed

syed — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:49:49 +0000

Excellent !!! This really Helped me…I was fiddling around with redhat & centOS on Virtual box 4.04..

By: Edward Stafford» VirtualBox and Bridged Networking on a Headless Ubuntu Server Host

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:19:01 +0000

[...] the previous VirtualBox post, I explained how (and how not) to set up bridged networking with LAN access to a Virtual Machine running on a Windows XP Host. Today I will explain how to do the same thing (without the How Not To [...]

By: virtualbox

virtualbox — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:14:46 +0000

I was struggling for almost 2 weeks now and this approach Worked for me like charm.. thanks alot

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.