Re: [9fans] 9atom & virtualbox 4.0.10 networking issue

[Fernan Bolando <fernanbolando@mailc.net>]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> Good news: 9atom installs fine on virtualbox 4.0.10 (the
>   latest) and most everything works
> Bad news: network access fails
>
> Since DHCP failed I hardwired an IP address and tried pinging
> the gateway. tcpdump on the host shows that ARP request goes
> out and the gateway sends its ARP response but this response
> is never seen by plan9!  Curiously, ether0/stats shows that
> packet receive count goes up as expected -- seems the driver
> is dropping received packets for some reason.
>
> FWIW, FreeBSD works fine with the *exact* same h/w emulation
> settings -- this seems to rule out the vbox logic.
>
> The virtual machine's network adapter in the `bridged' mode
> with the host's network adapter. I tried emulating AM79C73 as
> well as Intel Pro 1000/MT Desktop with the same symptom.  This
> happens on both Linux and MacOS VBox with the same h/w
> emulation settings.

My network settings which I have been using since 3.1X of virtualbox is this
Host-Only
nic: Intel Pro 1000/MT Server
Host: Mac osx and Windows xp

This allows the host to drawterm to the virtual machine. I failed to
get it to work as NAT or Bridge. Running the nic as host only is ok if
you just want to run plan9 without internet access.

I hope you get NAT or host running. It would  be nice.