VirtualBox, Linux, ethernet question...

[Giuseppe Fuggiano]

2009/6/15 Yoram Halberstam <yoram.halberstam at gmail.com>:
> I've tried them all...
>
> it says something like this:
>
> eth0  device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
> eth0 Starting  DHCP4 client . . . . . . . . .
> eth0 DHCP4 continues in backround
> waiting
> waiting for mandatory devices:   eth0 __NSC__
> 5 3 1
> eth0 device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
> eth0  DHCP4 client (dhcpcd) is running
> eth0  . . . but is still waiting for data
> waiting
> eth0  interface could not be set up until now
> failedSetting up service (localfs) network . . . . . . . . failed

If I understood your issue, you should not try to get an ip address
within the guest machine until the host one is configured well.  I
suggest you to configure the host machine using a command like this:

VBoxManage modifyvm "Name of your Machine" --bridgeadapter1 eth0

where eth0 is the host interface you are using.  You also can manage
the network configuration using the GUI shipped with the package.  Let
me point you to the official user manual instructions:

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#networkingdetails

-- 
Giuseppe