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

[Valery Ushakov]

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

File a bug with packet traces as captured in the guest.

-uwe