VirtualBox with Networking

[Alexander Boettcher]

Chris,

please have a look at [0]. There are already some information about
Virtualbox and nic_router and nic_bridge. Static IP addresses seem to
not work with nic_bridge and VBox.


[0] https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/2373

Alex.

On 25.09.2017 14:09, Chris Rothrock wrote:
> Alexander,
> 
> As a second part to thatm I took the DHCP part completely out of the
> equation and set a static IP on both VMs and I was unable to ping between
> the two VMs thereby taking the outside network completely out of the
> picture.  In this case, the ping should have gone from one VM to the NIC
> bridge then back to the second VM but that didn't occur either.  I will
> also try Martin's suggestion with the NIC dump but there is certainly
> something not routing properly with the bridge.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Alexander Boettcher <
> alexander.boettcher at ...1...> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 24.09.2017 19:16, Chris Rothrock wrote:
>>> I have been able to make a working environment with
>> Genode/NOVA/VirtualBox
>>> a single VM running TinyCore with networking enabled and can communicate
>>> across the network.  So far, only on VirtualBox 4, 5 still has issues
>> that
>>> I am still trying to work out that I will get into at a later time but my
>>> goal is multiple VMs with networking.
>>>
>>> With VirtualBox 4, I have successfully made two VM environments and both
>>> VMs see eth0, I can assign an IP address to each but neither VM can
>>> communicate outside their own VM.  Unlike with the single VM, I was
>>> unsuccessful to get an IP via DHCP (hence why I used a static IP), they
>>
>> just a guess:
>>
>> If you using the nic_bridge, make sure that the MAC addresses generated
>> by and assigned by the nic_bridge to the VMs
>> (repos/os/src/server/nic_bridge/README) actually are not ignored/are
>> permitted by your DHCP server.
>>
>> In the single VM use-case (running without the nic_bridge), the MAC
>> address of the network card is assigned to your VM, which is probably
>> permitted/white-listed by your DHCP server in your network, I guess.
>>
>>
>>> could not ping the other VM, they could not ping anything on the network
>> to
>>> which they were attached.  Is there a setting in the test.vbox file
>>> different than for a single VM mode that I need to make to make the
>> bridge
>>> work for this?
>>>
>>>
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