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

[Valery Ushakov]

Simon Xu <xu.simon at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.

Isn't .100 address used by the DHCP server for the host-only network?
I.e. you have an address conflict.


> Is there a better, once-and-for-all, workaround to fix it?

Don't use .100?

-uwe