Comments on: How to set up host interface networking for VirtualBox on Ubuntu

By: djegsi

djegsi — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:02:39 +0000

Once you have everything ready, you can start the VirtualBox management interface on the host machine, configure the network of your virtual machine, and by selecting “host networking”, enter the name of one of the virtual adapter you have configured. Start your virtual machine, it gets a network card presented, that you can set up as you wish (static IP address, DHCP) using the network configuration tools inside the virtual machine

Everything gone well but this last part l do not understand ????

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:21:21 +0000

kept getting error vboxnetadpctl when trying to add host-only network. This fixed it.

sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31-21-generic/updates/dkms/vboxnetadp.ko

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:43:52 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for the guide, it is very clear and concise.

I was stuck on the bridge interface for the vbox and was getting the error:
“Vbox status code:-3100 (VERR_HOSTIF_INIT_FAILED)”

Following your guide solved the error.

Thanks again.

Allan

By: AirClyde

AirClyde — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:04:37 +0000

On ur virtualbox console go to “File” and the go to “Preferences” then click the “Network” and then “Host-only” u add “host only network” then ur interfaces “vbox0″ “vbox1″ “vbox2″ “vbox3″ should appear. Once u add it will appear on the vbox guest machine by now. Go back to the vbox guest machine click “Settings” go to “Network” on “Adapter 1″ set it to “Bridge Adapter” then the “Name” click it to scroll down “vbox0..vbox1..vbox3…should appear without any problem…cheers !!!

By: severn

severn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:32:49 +0000

Way to go, tex, this broke my install permanently.

Thanks.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:53:57 +0000

The “/etc/vbox/interfaces” and “/etc/udev/rules.d/20-names.rules” files do not appear to exist when running Ubuntu 9.10 and Virtualbox 3.0.10 r54097. Have they been moved or is there another way to accomplish those steps?

Jason

By: Dr.Allcome

Dr.Allcome — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:22:52 +0000

Good work, thank you .

I had the mentioned problem under Ubuntu 8.04 with Virtual Box OSE 1.5.6. I as well had VM-Ware on this machine running.

I learned something and could fix the issue with this manual.

By: Basil

Basil — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:13:55 +0000

I did all according to plan - nothing working. Interfaces vbox0, vbox1, etc not seen…

By: David Lewis

David Lewis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:50:43 +0000

What else is supposed to be in my interfaces file? Scared of doing this and destroying my internet connection.

By: David Lewis

David Lewis — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:24:31 +0000

Is that it - I just replace the contents of interfaces file with

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0 vbox0

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

????????????????????????????????

By: shally87

shally87 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:02:37 +0000

Now that i try again, i get it fixed.. by the way you should state clearly;

# Each line should be of the format :
# []
vbox0 br0
vbox1 br0

the ‘your user name’ part people might get confused. So why not put host machine user name or ‘host user name’.. I get it fixed when i change it to the host user name.

By: Dorijan Santini

Dorijan Santini — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:20:48 +0000

After following steps mentioned above (working on Debian Lenny) I also got
error “VBox status code: -3100 (VERR_HOSTIF_INIT_FAILED).” But I found
that if you put vbox (for example vbox0) in “Interface Name” under
Host Interface Settings it fixes problem.

Here is screen dump of working example: http://www.dorijan.com/vboxhostinterface.jpg

By: shally87

shally87 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:05:02 +0000

any fix for that??

By: shally87

shally87 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:48:56 +0000

a-liew@Yumie:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose restart
* Shutting down VirtualBox host networking… [ OK ]
* Starting VirtualBox host networking… Warning - failed to create the interface vbox0 for the user dns
Warning - failed to create the interface vbox1 for the user lamp
Warning - failed to create the interface vbox2 for the user mail-Server
Warning - failed to create the interface vbox3 for the user leoserver
[ OK ]

I guesss i got this error while i was working with it.

By: Murky

Murky — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:54:22 +0000

I’m getting something similar:

Unknown error creating VM (VERR_HOSTIF_INIT_FAILED).
VBox status code: -3100 (VERR_HOSTIF_INIT_FAILED).

Result Code:
0×80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}

By: Duke

Duke — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:23:33 +0000

Outstanding write up. thanks a million! every step worked perfectly on the first try.

By: krisna

krisna — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:42:35 +0000

i have follow this article, but i receive this error:

Failed to power up VM! Error info:
Failed to initialize Host Interface Networking.
VBox status code: -3100 (VERR_HOSTIF_INIT_FAILED)

any one can help?

By: Mark H

Mark H — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:07:32 +0000

I followed the instructions on Ubuntugeek to install Virtualbox 2.1 and removed all of the bridging in the tutorial above which solved my problems. Works on wlan0 as well and is a whole lot easier. uwf and Virtualbox are working together. Thanks and keep up the good RSS info.

By: Mark H

Mark H — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:03:24 +0000

Thanks for the help this is was I needed for some time. However, I use ufw as a firewall and cant seem to get ufw and virtualbox configured per the above to play together nicely. Can you provide some insight on how to configure ufw to allow virtualbox to work when bridged per your instructions? Currently Vbox does not have internet/network connectivity when ufw is enabled.

Thanks in advance.

By: Sid Boyce

Sid Boyce — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:40:10 +0000

I found with 2.1.0 which I installed yesterday that networking in the VM allows using host adaptors. I have 4 boxes and the VM’s get their IP addresses via DHCP from the Smoothwall firewall box, so they are seen as just other boxes on the local network. All without messing with bridging, I simply selected host networking and eth0 in each VM config.
I can now do network printing from the VM’s, file transfers, ssh, etc.
Nice work from Sun for a change - I’ve suffered Solaris and SPARC for many years.