[vbox-dev] Question about NATNetwork

[Larry Finger]

On 04/23/2016 03:29 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Sáb, 2016-04-23 at 15:06 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>>
>> I maintain the VirtualBox packages for openSUSE, and I have run into
>> a problem
>> with networking in the guests. Using the host RPMs built by the
>> openSUSE version
>> of the .spec file, NAT networking works in the guests but NATNetwork
>> does not.
>> The guest cannot even ping the gateway, although they get IP
>> addresses.
>>
>> When I install the RPM from the VirtualBox download site, both types
>> of
>> networking work in the guests. I would appreciate pointers as to
>> which component
>> of the VB host system is likely to be the problem.
>
> Maybe I have ran in a similar problem, /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VBoxNetNAT
> need to be suid
>
> %attr(4511,root,root) %{_libdir}/virtualbox/VBoxNetNAT
> %attr(4511,root,root) %{_libdir}/virtualbox/VBoxVolInfo
> %attr(4511,root,root) %{_libdir}/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
> %attr(4511,root,root) %{_libdir}/virtualbox/VBoxSDL
> %attr(4511,root,root) %{_libdir}/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP
> %attr(4511,root,root) %{_libdir}/virtualbox/VBoxNetAdpCtl
> %attr(4511,root,root) %{_libdir}/virtualbox/VirtualBox

The permissions of VBoxNetNAT are the problem. Now all I need to do is get the 
RPM to have the correct permissions.

Thanks,

Larry