[CentOS] VirtualBox on CentOS 7 with bridged network not working

Thu Mar 15 19:09:54 UTC 2018
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 03:47:42PM +0000, James Pearson wrote:
> I've installed VirtualBox v5.2 on a CentOS 7.4 machine, but VMs set up 
> with bridged networking can not 'see' past the VirtualBox host machine
> 
> i.e. the VM can ping the host and vice versa, but the VM can not ping 
> anything else and other machines on the same subnet can't ping the VM

I hate to be the first to say "works for me", but it does! :)

I have (or have had) many VMs in Virtualbox, both Windoze and various
flavors of Linux, as well as one or two other things. I always set
them up as bridged and they "just" work.

Can't think of what might cause it, but you might want to look at
/var/log/messages, etc., on both the guest and the host. Make sure
the vbox kernel module(s) is(are) installed. I don't think the vbox
tools for the client would have anything to do with this, but it won't
hurt to check that they are properly installed.

Good luck!

Fred
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