DHCP options are completely ignored for Host-Only and NatNetwork

[Kriston]

DHCP options are ignored for Host-Only and NATNetwork. We always get the original defaults no matter what we put in these settings.

From Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, go to File...Preferences. Select Network. Select Host-Only Networks. Select VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter. Click the screwdriver tool icon. Under Adapter, put something IPv4 Address 10.1.1.0, IPv4 Network Mask 255.255.255.0. Under DHCP Server, put Server Address: 10.1.1.2, Server Mask 255.255.255.0, lower address bound 10.1.1.3, upper address bound 10.1.1.100. Click OK.

Set your Windows guest to use only the Host-Only Networking adapter. Now try to boot Windows or another guest host that happens to have DHCP enabled.

Expected behavior: We should be getting 10.10.1.x.

Actual behavior: The guest will inexplicably receive an IP address from the Host-Only Network device that looks like the original defaults, namely in the 192.168.56.x range.

This same behavior happens in NatNetwork.

[Valery Ushakov]

Please, provide your VirtualBox.xml file.

[Kriston]

I have a workaround. This might instead be a workflow or documentation problem, not an actual bug in the software's network configuration. When I fully delete NatNetwork and the Host-Only interface and re-add them, my intended network settings work.

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