Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the
following message on the network Fedora icon

"requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:
> >> Odd. I don't see this problem on my systems. I run both
> NAT interfaces as well as Bridged....mostly Bridged. I am, however, using the VBox
> supplied by Oracle and not the one from the Fedora repositories.
> > Thanks again, Ed. I am also running the VBox supplied by Oracle. Maybe
> > deleting all VBox settings would do the trick, but I do not know to do
> > that, in case that is possible.
>
>  I don't know what settings one would go about deleting.
>
>  I am normally a curious person but I must admit that I've not looked into the
> oddities of Vbox networking.  As I've mentioned I do use both NAT and Bridged
> interfaces in my VBox VMs.  And, they just work.....  But the odd thing is that on my host
> system I don't see any vboxnet0 or any other interface which may be connected with
> Virtual Box.
>
>  If I run a VM with a NAT interface, it gets an IP address of 10.x.x.x and works fine and
> as it should.  Meaning the VM can surf and connect as you'd expect....but another
> system can't find or connect to it.
>
>  This may not be germane to what you're experiencing.....  But if one makes a settings
> change to a running VM that change may not be permanent.  I've found it best to always
> make changes to a VM's settings when it is stopped. 
Thanks, Ed. Let us hope that next VBox version will fix the issue.

Paul

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/20/14 21:24, Paul Smith wrote:
>  On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Ed Greshko
> <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:
> > Odd. I don't see this problem on my systems. I run both NAT interfaces as well as
> Bridged....mostly Bridged. I am, however, using the VBox supplied by Oracle and not the
> one from the Fedora repositories. 
>  Thanks again, Ed. I am also running the VBox supplied by Oracle. Maybe
>  deleting all VBox settings would do the trick, but I do not know to do
>  that, in case that is possible. 
I don't know what settings one would go about deleting.

I am normally a curious person but I must admit that I've not looked into the oddities
of Vbox networking.  As I've mentioned I do use both NAT and Bridged interfaces in my
VBox VMs.  And, they just work.....  But the odd thing is that on my host system I
don't see any vboxnet0 or any other interface which may be connected with Virtual
Box.

If I run a VM with a NAT interface, it gets an IP address of 10.x.x.x and works fine and
as it should.  Meaning the VM can surf and connect as you'd expect....but another
system can't find or connect to it.

This may not be germane to what you're experiencing.....  But if one makes a settings
change to a running VM that change may not be permanent.  I've found it best to always
make changes to a VM's settings when it is stopped.


-- 
If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige.

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:
> >>>>>> Whenever I start a virtual machine with
> VirtualBox, I get the
> >>>>>> following message on the network Fedora icon
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any ideas?
> >>>>> How have you defined your network adapter in Vbox?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> NAT, Bridged, Host Only ????
> >>>> Thanks, Ed. In VirtualBox, the network adapter is configured as NAT.
> >>> If you change it to "bridged", does that make a difference?
> >> Thanks, Ed. Indeed, the change to "bridged" fixed the problem!
> > It fixed the problem, yes, but only while no reboot took place; after
> > a reboot the problem returns.
> >
> > It seems to be related with the following:
> >
> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184999
> >
>
>  Odd.  I don't see this problem on my systems.  I run both NAT interfaces as well as
> Bridged....mostly Bridged.  I am, however, using the VBox supplied by Oracle and not the
> one from the Fedora repositories. 
Thanks again, Ed. I am also running the VBox supplied by Oracle. Maybe
deleting all VBox settings would do the trick, but I do not know to do
that, in case that is possible.

Paul

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/20/14 19:00, Paul Smith wrote:
>  On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
> >>>>> Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the
> >>>>> following message on the network Fedora icon
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any ideas?
> >>>> How have you defined your network adapter in Vbox?
> >>>>
> >>>> NAT, Bridged, Host Only ????
> >>> Thanks, Ed. In VirtualBox, the network adapter is configured as NAT.
> >> If you change it to "bridged", does that make a difference?
> > Thanks, Ed. Indeed, the change to "bridged" fixed the problem!
>  It fixed the problem, yes, but only while no reboot took place; after
>  a reboot the problem returns.
>
>  It seems to be related with the following:
>
>  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184999
>  
Odd.  I don't see this problem on my systems.  I run both NAT interfaces as well as
Bridged....mostly Bridged.  I am, however, using the VBox supplied by Oracle and not the
one from the Fedora repositories.


-- 
If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige.

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >>>> Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I
> get the
> >>>> following message on the network Fedora icon
> >>>>
> >>>> "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas?
> >>> How have you defined your network adapter in Vbox?
> >>>
> >>> NAT, Bridged, Host Only ????
> >> Thanks, Ed. In VirtualBox, the network adapter is configured as NAT.
> >
> > If you change it to "bridged", does that make a difference?
>
>  Thanks, Ed. Indeed, the change to "bridged" fixed the problem! 
It fixed the problem, yes, but only while no reboot took place; after
a reboot the problem returns.

It seems to be related with the following:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184999

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:
> >>> Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get
> the
> >>> following message on the network Fedora icon
> >>>
> >>> "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas?
> >> How have you defined your network adapter in Vbox?
> >>
> >> NAT, Bridged, Host Only ????
> > Thanks, Ed. In VirtualBox, the network adapter is configured as NAT.
>
>  If you change it to "bridged", does that make a difference? 
Thanks, Ed. Indeed, the change to "bridged" fixed the problem!

Paul

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/09/14 23:24, Paul Smith wrote:
>  On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Ed Greshko
> <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:
> >> Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the
> >> following message on the network Fedora icon
> >>
> >> "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> > How have you defined your network adapter in Vbox?
> >
> > NAT, Bridged, Host Only ????
>  Thanks, Ed. In VirtualBox, the network adapter is configured as NAT.
>  
If you change it to "bridged", does that make a difference?


-- 
If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige.

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:
> > Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the
> > following message on the network Fedora icon
> >
> > "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
>  How have you defined your network adapter in Vbox?
>
>  NAT, Bridged, Host Only ???? 
Thanks, Ed. In VirtualBox, the network adapter is configured as NAT.

Paul

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/09/14 18:20, Paul Smith wrote:
>  Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the
>  following message on the network Fedora icon
>
>  "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1"
>
>  Any ideas? 
How have you defined your network adapter in Vbox?

NAT, Bridged, Host Only ????

-- 
If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige.