[vbox-dev] Host-only network not working for the VM that boot up first

[Simon Xu]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with Windows 10 and Virtualbox 5.0.4 (102546). In 
my setup, host-only network doesn't work for the VM that first boot up, 
the VM uses static IP for host-only NIC, e.g. 192.168.56.100, now if you 
ping this IP from Windows, it just timeouts.  Now if you start the 
second VM with static IP (say 192.168.56.101) for host-only NIC, you can 
ssh from Windows to this VM, and host-only networking between 
192.168.56.100 and 192.168.56.101 works fine.

There's a workaround: after starting the first VM, change the IP of the 
host-only NIC of the host, after a couple of seconds, you can ssh to the VM.

Anyone having the same issue?  Is it a known bug?  Is there a better, 
once-and-for-all, workaround to fix it?


Thanks
Simon