[ale] VirtualBox

[Tim Watts]

Does ping complain of 'host unreachable' or 'network unreachable'?
Does your firewall restrict ICMP packets?

OTOH, I've always had better results using bridged networking rather
than nat.


On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 18:36 -0500, Jim Butler wrote:
> Hi Everyone..
> I am trying to virtualize some servers, and I decided to use
> VirtualBox to do it instead of VMWare. My problem is this: I got
> everything all set up the way I wanted it, and installed three
> different virtual machines. Everything was working fine until this
> morning when I went to use the networking. Networking is set to NAT,
> and it worked fine before. Now, all of my virtual machines still work
> fine, but when I try to ping the host IP from the virtual machine, it
> is unable to reach the ip on the host. On the icon bar at the bottom
> of the virtual machine window, it shows network activity, and
> everything looks normal from within the virtual machine it's self.
> Furthermore, I can ping outside of my host box from within a host
> shell.. (that is, on the host (not the virtual machine) if I try to
> ping yahoo.com it works fine).. It's just a problem either with the
> way that the virtual machine is sending the packets, or with the way
> that the host machine recieves (or doesn't recieve) the NATted
> packets. 
> If someone can help me with this, I would sure be appreciative.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim Butler
> 
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