VirtualBox provides a number of networking options for guest OS. NAT is the most simple one to use. I was able to have Internet access without any extra configuration at home. However, it appeared no working at University's network.
After some research, I find out that the fundamental problem is DNS setting. When I start to use Virtual Box at home, the guest OS automatically get DNS setting from my ADSL router. These DNS server were not accessible when I use virtual OS at University network. The solution is very simple: manually assign DNS server address in the guest OS.
Reference:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2430&highlight=network+proxy
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I have been looking all over the place for this. I am running Windows XP on my Mac and couldn't for the life of me figure out why I could connect to the router and not the internet. Tired the forums and IRC chat with no success.
Thanks!
Danny
Posted by Danny Holland on August 28, 2008 at 03:09 PM EST #
Wow, you just made my day, i've spent countless hours trying to figure out why my virtual xp could connect at college, but not at home. entered in my dns addys and bam, works like a charm. this forum needs to get posted on the vbox site or something :P thanks
-Ralph
Posted by ralph on October 03, 2008 at 06:26 PM EST #
i am running windows xp on the host and ubuntu virtually. Why cannot i connect to the internet via ubuntu. PLZ help
Posted by abhi on April 20, 2009 at 02:35 PM EST #