On Dec 2, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your kind help. Now I am running FreeBSD on Virtualbox as a guest > OS on Ubuntu. But I got some other problems. I have searched on the Internet > but could not find a solution work for me. > Now the guest OS does have network access. When using ifconfig, the virtual > ethernet card le0 (when using PCI II) or pcn0 (when using PCnet FAST III) has > no IP address. I have configured ifconfig_le0/pcn0="DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf. > But it still has no network access. In the virtualbox, I choose the > networking mode "Bridged" or "NAT", they don't work, either. I found in the > virtualbox the name of this virtual network interface is eth0. But when i use > ifconfig, there is no eth0 in this operating system. I don't know whether > this is the reason. > Hope you could give me some possible ideas on solutions. I will post a new > email on this problem, too. > Thank you very much. > > Best, > W.W. > > Greetings Weihang, > > I've had a simmilar issue, infact. Having one now in my VM that will be > fbsd9+zfs (testing stuff for my environment). The only way I can get proper > access to the outside world is to allow VMWare or VBox to install the > Bridgeing Adapter. In the VM Software, choose the bridging device and then > choose any network device the VM offers you (in vBox I have 2 PCINET devices > and 3 others, the choice doesn't matter really). When I assigned a static IP > to the VM (in my case 192.168.0.20) but it doesn't work (be sure yo set the > default route, 'route add gateway <IP>). The only way I had it working was to > let DHCP get an IP at the command line w/ 'dhclient -q <DEVICE_NAME>'. > Anyway, hope that helps a little.
Hi, I will try and see whether the same method works for me. If it could not get network access. I am afraid I could not use virtual machine and might go back to run FreeBSD on real hardware. Thank you very much, Best, W.W. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
