VirtualBox + Bridged Networking

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:29:57 -0400, Hub- FreeBSD wrote:
> First, I've searched google hi+low, and this is still eluding me …
> 
> I've got a FreeBSD 8-STABLE  box that is up to date as of yesterday …
> VirtualBox installed great, I got through the docs on how to create a
> Headless VM, it boots, FreeBSD 8 ISO installed on it, everything works
> great "stand alone" … but I can't get the network to work.
> 
> Host Machine, ethernet looks like:
> 
> ganymede# ifconfig -a
> ale0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	options=c319a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
> 	ether 00:22:15:f1:bc:c5
> 	inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> 	media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>
> 	status: active
> pflog0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 33200
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> 	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> vboxnet0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00
> ganymede# 
> 
> 
> showvminfo for the VM shows NIC 1 as :
> 
> NIC 1:           MAC: 080027F9E7B2, Attachment: Bridged Interface
> 'vboxnet0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type:
> 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0
> 
> A cut-n-paste of ifconfig in the VPS is attached below...
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, I can't ping anywhere …
> 
> I tried to set the bridged device to the ale0 device, which allows me
> to ping everywhere *except* the host server … so I'm missing a step
> here …
> 
> I've read through http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox several times … 
> 
> The steps i used to create the remote headless were found:
> 
> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html
> 
> So I figure either I'm bridging to the wrong device. or I missing a
> configuration step on the Host side of things … but I can't seem to
> find anywhere where someone has asked that and gotten an answer and/or
> that it is documented … everything seems to point to using the GUI,
> which, in this environment, I don' t have access to …
> 
> 
> So far, though, getting VirtualBox up and running has been fantastic

I guess you just used the wrong device that you attached to. When
configuring bridging via QT GUI and using bge0 I get:

NIC 1:           MAC: 080027289A85, Attachment: Bridged Interface
'bge0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM,
Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0


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Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/