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

[Simon Xu]

On 2015/9/15 22:41, uwe at stderr.spb.ru wrote:
> 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.

No, dhcp server is disabled.  And the issue still exists when I don't 
use .100 for the VM.

Thanks
Simon

>> Is there a better, once-and-for-all, workaround to fix it?
> Don't use .100?
>
> -uwe