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cmm7825

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Registered: 2012-04-08

Posts: 22

VirtualBox Host-only routes not being added

I installed virtualbox and virtualbox-modules from the repos. I added the three modules to my rc.conf. I also added my user to the vboxusers group. I can create host only networks and run VMs. However, the host only traffic doesn't appear to be routed to the correct interface. I can't ssh to my VM via the host only interface. When I do an 'ip addr' the interface says its DOWN. When I try to manually change it to "UP", the interface changes state to "UNKNOWN".

191 ~ > lsmod | grep vbox   
vboxnetflt             17063  2
vboxnetadp              5843  0
vboxdrv              1792230  4 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

192 ~ > groups                           
lp wheel games video audio optical storage scanner power users vboxusers

190 ~ > ip addr                                                                                                                                 
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:25:11:71:47:c6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.32/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 fe80::225:11ff:fe71:47c6/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

197 ~ > ip route                                                                                                                                                                       
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0  metric 202
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.32  metric 202

198 ~ > ip addr           
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:25:11:71:47:c6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.32/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 fe80::225:11ff:fe71:47c6/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::800:27ff:fe00:0/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

cmm7825

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Registered: 2012-04-08

Posts: 22

Re: VirtualBox Host-only routes not being added

can anyone help with this?

cmm7825

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Registered: 2012-04-08

Posts: 22

Re: VirtualBox Host-only routes not being added

BTW, this fixes it "sudo ip route add 192.168.56.0/24 dev vboxnet0"

I just don't want to always have to run that. VirtualBox should take care of it.

kevin1024

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From: Kailua, Hawaii

Registered: 2007-08-26

Posts: 18

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Re: VirtualBox Host-only routes not being added

I had this problem too.  You have to install the deprecated net-tools package.