Get Virtual box to connect to internet

[Dapman01]

I just installed windows vista to my virtual box and I have two questions
1. Is it possible for it to connect to the internet if so how
2. How do I get Vista to mount usb devices

[mozetti]

I'm at work, but when I get home (10-12 hours) I'll try to find the info I used. To answer your question, yes you can get Vista to connect to the internet. I used the VirtualBox help files (i'm pretty sure) and it discussed multiple ways to configure virtual network adapters. Give it a go, or wait for me to let you know which method I used later on today.

Regarding USB devices - have you installed the (forget the exact name) Virtualbox Helper Tools, or something like that? There's info in the help files on installing that, too.

[Dapman01]

I think I'll wait for you, thanks

[daengbo]

Dapman01,

New VirtualBox machines are set up by default to use NAT, which means that the guest OS will get an IP (10.x.x.x) through DHCP and should connect automatically. Is your problem with VirtualBox or with Vista?

[Dapman01]

How can I tell?
Also How do I get an existing Vista partition to run in Virtualbox

[Dapman01]

bump

[maybeway36]

Install the Guest Additions, it includes a network driver for Vista.

[Dapman01]

How do I do that in kubuntu

Also I am having a problem starting/deleting/editing that partition after messing with the settings in the virtual machine
For deleting

Assertion failed: [VBOX_SUCCESS (vrc)] at '/build/buildd/virtualbox-ose-1.5.0-dfsg2/src/VBox/Main/MachineImpl.cpp' (4681) in nsresult Machine:penConfigLoader(CfgLoader**, bool).
VERR_OPEN_FAILED (-101) - File/Device open failed..
Please contact the product vendor!.


Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {31f7169f-14da-4c55-8cb6-a3665186e35e}


For Starting

Unknown error creating VM (VERR_GENERAL_FAILURE).
VBox status code: -1 (VERR_GENERAL_FAILURE).


Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}


For editing settings

Assertion failed: [VBOX_SUCCESS (vrc)] at '/build/buildd/virtualbox-ose-1.5.0-dfsg2/src/VBox/Main/MachineImpl.cpp' (4681) in nsresult Machine:penConfigLoader(CfgLoader**, bool).
VERR_OPEN_FAILED (-101) - File/Device open failed..
Please contact the product vendor!.


Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Machine
Interface:
IMachine {31f7169f-14da-4c55-8cb6-a3665186e35e}



I don't mind deleting the VM and starting a new one, but it won't even let me delete it

[christina_svats]

I don't know if it helps but i followed these instructions and had no problem with network connection in Windows (check out step2 for configuring the network):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=canon

If you want to mount usb devices you should not use the open source edition, which is offered in Add/Remove, since it does not support usb devices.

[markharding557]

guest additions is run from the menu in virtualbox
ms disabled networking in vista on vms to make it more difficult,see link below

Windows Vista guests ¶

* There is no networking in Windows Vista guests initially because, unfortunately, with Vista, Microsoft dropped driver support for the virtual AMD PCnet card that we are providing. See "Troubleshooting" -> "Windows guests" in the User Manual for a solution. The VirtualBox Guest Additions contain the AMD PCnet driver.