Hi,

I have never used virtualbox under RHEL clones, but it works fine on UBuntu
(network also). How about trying to create bridged interface to normal
network using brctl cli tool?



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Eero

2015-10-27 5:43 GMT+02:00 Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>:

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> On 10/26/2015 12:27 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
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> 2015-10-26 20:45 GMT+02:00 Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> Although the KVM solution discussed here may work, the description of
>> this in operation appears to be a true
>> hypervisor even when only used to run, say, MS Windows as an application
>> environment virtual machine under SL.  That is, this solution is not the
>> same "in spirit" as is VirtualBox.  On a hard 802.3 wired connection,
>> VirtualBox does provide Internet access to the outside world from the
>> guest; this seems to be a failure on a 802.11 ISP wifi connection.  JHas
>> anyone used VMware-Player-12.0.0-2985596.x86_64.bundle on a SL7 host
>> with a MS Win guest?
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> Did you really enabled bridged interface for host on VirtualBox?
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> Eero
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> Yes -- I just tried it again.  The only network that seems to be active is
> vboxnet -- which is detected by Network Manager, but Network Manager cannot
> activate vboxne -- Network Manager just "spins".    MS Win 7 Pro complains
> that there is no network adapter -- although the Intel MT hardware appears
> under the MS Win hardware GUI.  Does VirtualBox with a MS Win 7 guest have
> Internet access from the MS Win guest on your system?  What configuration
> are you using?  Could it be specific IEEE 802.11 WNICs under SL -- some
> work, some do not with VirtualBox current? This used to work with an
> earlier 32 bit SL 6 system and an earlier release of VirtualBox.  Note that
> the MS Win guest is 32 bit although both SL 7 and the VirtualBox system are
> 64 bit.
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> Yasha Karant
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