On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 20:32 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum command I've tried) I get a repo error - " Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'" Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
seems so - I have a terminal and can ping out and ftp, the host computer is a home ubuntu box on a wifi network, I'm typing right now on another computer on the same network, I'm not aware of any connectivity issues, I haven't set up any proxy.
I got exactly the same problem due to a firewall (IP Tables) stopping traffic. Ensure port 80 is open.