Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.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!

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