Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> 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