[CentOS] CentOS 5.6 x86_64 hosting unreachable Virtualbox 4.0.6 bridged guests
Philippe Lauget
lists at lrnx.ath.cx
Tue Apr 26 15:30:13 UTC 2011
Le 26/04/2011 11:26, Johnny Hughes a écrit :
> On 04/26/2011 03:28 AM, Philippe wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On a box running CentOS 5.6 x86_64 and Virtualbox 4.0.6, I have
>> configured 2 guests (WinXP x86 + CentOS 5.6 x86_64) in bridged mode.
>> The hosting box and the two guests are dhcp enabled. The hosting box
>> get its address normally, but the 2 hosted systems fail to get theirs.
>> The dhcp server log tells : DHCPDISCOVER from 08:00:xx:xx:xx:xx via
>> em0: network xx.xx/16: no free leases.
>> When changing from dhcp to static ip in the CentOS guest, 'service
>> network restart' does not report any errors, but the guest keeps
>> unreachable from the outside : pinging the guest works some times, but
>> trying to reach the guest with ssh, http, or ftp always fail, with or
>> whitout iptables enabled on the host and/or the guests.
>>
>> Please note that:
>> - Kernel and softwares on the hosting CentOS are up-to-date, the box
>> has an Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
>> NIC, does not have an Intel VT compliant CPU (Pentium E5700), but
>> VT/AMD-V enabled in bios.
>> - The host is not configured in bridged mode (does not have a br
>> interface configured), Oracle telling that bridged mode on the host is
>> not required to run Virtualbox guests in bridged mode.
>> - The 2 guests work perfectly in NAT mode, but this mode is not an
>> option for me.
>> - The same 2 guests work perfectly in bridged mode on another same
>> hosting box running Fedora 14.
>>
>> Is anyone experimenting the same difficulties with Virtualbox on CentOS
>> 5.6 ? I don't know where to search to solve this problem.
>> Thanks for your help !
>>
>
> Some things to check:
>
> 1. Make sure the user that is running the VMs is in the vboxusers group.
>
Yes, the user running the vms belongs to vboxusers group.
> 2. What is the status of SELinux on the host CentOS and the Guest
> CentOS. For troubleshooting purposes I would turn SELinux off on both
> hosts .. if nothing changes, turn them back on.
>
SE in strict, permissive, or simply disabled does not change anything.
> Although, if they work correctly in NAT mode, then those are likely OK.
Thanks for your response.
--
Philippe
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