No Network card found in Virtualbox Installation

leo7679 · 2016-02-12 07:41:18

I'm running kali as host and trying to run arch as guest in virtualbox.
but there is no network adapter found thus no connection to install gui server.

I tried all network options in virtualbox but nothing is working .

thankx if anyone can help.

Last edited by leo7679 (2016-02-12 07:42:04)

ayekat · 2016-02-12 08:32:22

There is the wired network interface enp0s3. You can use that one.

leo7679 · 2016-02-12 21:08:11

Hm already tried .
ip link set enp0s3 up
but same problem.

ayekat · 2016-02-12 21:11:23

You also need to set an address, either via DHCP or manually. Have you actually read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network?

EDIT OK, since this is the installation medium, it should actually configure the network itself. ~~What's the output of this?~~

ip link
ip address

Also, what are the network settings for VirtualBox?

Ah, scratch that, I see there is an IP address. What is the output of this?

ip route
cat /etc/resolv.conf

*wondering why ifconfig still exists on the install medium*

Last edited by ayekat (2016-02-12 21:15:41)

ewaller · 2016-02-12 22:06:17

This is a virtual machine. It does not have access to the real hardware of the host computer (well, mostly)

There is a virtual network interface in that virtual machine. There is a virtual cable that connects it to the VirtualBox program running on the Kali host. This virtual network has two computer on it, the VM, and the VirtualBox program. The VirtualBox program also provides a virtual DHCP server to hand out addresses on that virtual network. You need to configure the VirtualBox program to either use Host Only, NAT or Bridge mode to allow your virtual machine access to the real world. I suggest NAT.

On the VM in the Arch install media, just use the command dhcpcd and the network will come up

leo7679 · 2016-02-14 14:23:22

Thanks for the suggestion from both of you.
and I tried dhcpcd

Moderator edit: Image site below is NSFW (Not Safe For Work)

Also I noticed In virtualbox network manager there is no option for my wireless NIC.

Last edited by ewaller (2016-02-14 16:23:37)

ewaller · 2016-02-14 16:21:56

As I tried to point out, This is a virtual machine. The interfaces available to it are pretend. If you go a lspci, the network card that appears to be in the VM will, in all likelihood, not be the same as the real card that is installed in the host. If they are the same, it is purely by coincidence. There is no wireless card in your VM. It is hard for a pretend card to connect to an antenna.

The screen shot on that NOT SAFE FOR WORK image hosting site seems to indicate that dhcpcd is already running on that interface. What is the output of ip addr ?

leo7679 · 2016-02-14 17:10:35

Hmmmm...

ewaller · 2016-02-14 17:22:49

The network is up and has an IP address. (10.0.2.2) What is the problem?
It tells me your VirtualBox is set up for either NAT or Host Only.
Have you tried using the network?
Can you ping 10.0.2.1? That would be the host machine.
Can you ping 66.211.214.131 ? That is an Arch Linux server. If so, NAT is working on your host.
Can you ping archlinux.org ? If so, then DNS is working

leo7679 · 2016-02-14 18:47:33

leo7679 · 2016-02-14 18:48:27

I tried many ways, but

ewaller · 2016-02-14 19:01:18

This is interesting. You were able to ping Arch Linux by name. That means you are able to resolve DNS queries. I am starting to think that the problem is on the host side. DNS requests worked, but ICMP requests fail.

What happens if you try wget or curl (I don't remember which is on the install disk) to fetch archlinux.org ?

leo7679 · 2016-02-14 19:10:37

It worked but problem remains same

ewaller · 2016-02-14 19:20:55

What problem would that be? The title says that there was no network card found in the VirtualBox installation. We have demonstrated that it is, that it can resolve DNS queries, it can retrieve stuff from the public Internet using TCP packets through NAT forwarding on the host. Clearly there is a network interface in the VM (albeit a virtual one).

Kali is, by design, paranoid. It may well be blocking ICMP packets -- but that is not the original question, nor is Kali configuration something we will be able to help with.

leo7679 · 2016-02-14 19:34:42

but I also have CentOS in same virtualbox and its working fine with dhcp. I tried also in windows 8.1 same problem.

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