No Internet in Virtualbox (Windows XP)

[Shampyon]

I run Xp in VirtualBox for my IT class assignments because the course is very Windows specific. I installed the closed source version of VB, and had internet access from it for a while. Now I don't. I have no idea why.

I'm not sure what information I need to supply for you to help me properly.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Type the following in a terminal
VBoxManage list vms

Check the name for your XP VM and return the output here:

[Shampyon]

VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Name: TAFE
Guest OS: Windows XP
UUID: 0bce735e-a94d-4683-a831-a857db013101
Config file: /home/shampyon/.VirtualBox/Machines/TAFE/TAFE.xml
Memory size: 256MB
VRAM size: 8MB
Boot menu mode: message and menu
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: off
PAE: off
Time offset: 0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: off
Nested Paging: off
VT-x VPID: off
State: powered off (since 2009-03-20T03:21:57.000000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: off
Floppy: empty
SATA: enabled
IDE Controller: PIIX4
Primary master: /home/shampyon/.VirtualBox/VDI/TAFE.vdi (UUID: 98b00dd2-3851-42c8-bd6d-1db8e8fd0d08)
DVD: empty
NIC 1: MAC: 080027BB0A06, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
NIC 2: MAC: 080027CCAF36, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
NIC 3: MAC: 0800276F9CC1, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C970A, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
NIC 4: MAC: 0800271AA670, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82543GC, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
NIC 5: disabled
NIC 6: disabled
NIC 7: disabled
NIC 8: disabled
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
Audio: enabled (Driver: OSS, Controller: AC97)
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
VRDP: disabled
USB: enabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Shared folders:

Name: 'TAFE', Host path: '/home/shampyon/TAFE' (machine mapping), writable

Guest:

Statistics update: disabled

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Hmmm

The only real difference I can see when comparing with my VMs is the number of netowrk interfaces you have on board the VM (other than the enabled SATA controller, I don't have one on my host so don't need to enable, but can't see how this would affect internet access?)

Why 4 NICs? Are you trying to connect with them all?

Try deleting down to one, suggest you use the most basic; The PCnet-PCI II, and work up from there.

If that doesn't work, try running (instead of NAT) as host interface with eth0 selected.

[Shampyon]

OOps, I forgot about the network interfeces. I was activating them one at a time and got no result, so I tried activating them all at once to see what would happen.

I'll give the host interface thing a go.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Another thought, what about firewall settings on your host?

[Shampyon]

I'm using GuardDog firewall settings manager. I thought I had the right ports opened.. what ports does Virtualbox need to access the host connection?

[cfree220]

Do you have Guest Additions for Windows installed on your VM? I have a Vista Ultimate VM and A Windows 7 beta VM, neither of which were able to connect to the internet until Guest Additions were installed.

[Shampyon]

I changed the settings to use the host interface and turned off the firewall part of the internet security suite I'd installed in the guest. Guest internet access is now at 100%.

Thank you all for your help!

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

:)

One Step at a time :)

[LucasCordina]

Yeah I pretty much had the same problem, I need windows to complete my course *.*, i just need to make internet work on my virtual box and if it doesn't wellllllll =[ i'll actually have to use windows as my main OS.... we don't want that, do we?