virtualbox install

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Sebastian Muniz wrote:

> On 7/11/2011 12:49 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
>> That's strange.  The NIC selection in the guest config should be unrelated
>> to the OS or hardware of the host.  Using a 32-bit XP host, I can use any 
>> of
>> the Intel NIC types (they all are handled by the em driver) or either PCNet
>> NIC (handled by the le driver) with no problems on my FreeBSD guests.
>> 
>
> Hello Dan,
> WIll retry the instalation a save logs.
> Using a W7 64bits host with a Stable 8.2 amd64 FreeBSD GENERIC kernel, could 
> not ping. Didn't try to sniff the network.
> Keep you posted.

pings won't make it through VirtualBox's NAT.  Try bridged mode, or 
something other than ping.