On 03/30/2016 08:40 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2016-03-30 20:35, olli hauer wrote: >> On 2016-03-31 05:02, Yasha Karant wrote: >>> On 03/30/2016 06:56 PM, jdow wrote: >>>> On 2016-03-30 10:59, Yasha Karant wrote: >> ... >>>> Yasha, you may find you have to modify the virtual box settings so >>>> that they are not trying to use a network connection that is not >>>> active. That will also mean shutting down VB and restarting it. >>>> This is an issue I have with a Windows 7 host, as well. >>>> >>>> Disconnected adapters won't communicate with anything. And when you >>>> connect 802.3 the 802.11 connection is shut down. >>>> >>>> {^_^} >>> Thank you for that information. However, reading the VirtualBox >>> manual (https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/) I cannot find the >>> command to shutdown VirtualBox. Because EL 7 no longer uses the >>> standard rc scripts, where do I look? Does VirtualBox have its own >>> command? I have looked through the VBoxManage switches, and I >>> cannot seem to find one that allows one to shutdown all of the >>> VirtualBox services and then to restart these. Details for SL7 >>> would be most appreciated. >>> >> >> Hm, on FreeBSD most users configure a LAGG interface with both >> interfaces as member, this way changing the real interface is >> transparent to VirtualBox. >> > Hm, this might do the same thing: > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Load_Balancer_Administration/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Load_Balancer_Administration-en-US.pdf > > > {^_^} I do not know about the Load Balancer, but after some "research", I found and executed as root: systemctl stop vboxdrv.service systemctl start vboxdrv.service This had no effect -- but these may be the wrong commands. (Evidently, on EL 7, systemctl replaces the usual rc scripts.) Any other suggestions? Yasha Karant