Network not working in OpenSolaris 2008.5 guest

[DevUrandom]

The network in a freshly setup OpenSolaris 2008.5 guest system, with guest-additions installed (addpkg -d VBox*.pgk), is completely not working. The machine that was setup as nameserver via DHCP (10.0.2.3) does not respond to pings and does not resolve network names, pinging "raw" IP Addresses does not work, etc.

I will attach the config+logs.

$ netstat -nr Routing Table: IPv4

Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface

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default 10.0.2.2 UG 1 2 pcn0 10.0.2.0 10.0.2.15 U 1 3 pcn0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 43 lo0

$ ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1

inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

pcn0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2

inet 10.0.2.15 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.0.2.255 ether 8:0:27:a8:fc:c

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain local nameserver 10.0.2.3

$ traceroute 10.0.2.3 traceroute to 10.0.2.3 (10.0.2.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets

1 10.0.2.2 (10.0.2.2) 1.404 ms 1.492 ms 1.377 ms 2 * * *

...

$ traceroute 64.233.187.99 # google.com traceroute to 64.233.187.99 (64.233.187.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets

1 10.0.2.2 (10.0.2.2) 1.459 ms 1.468 ms 1.370 ms 2 * * *

...

[Robert Munteanu]

I have encountered the same problem, and after multiple reboots ( and changing the NAT network to 192.168/16 ) it started working after setting the NIC type to PCnet-PCI II.

[DevUrandom]

Replying to rombert:

I have encountered the same problem, and after multiple reboots ( and changing the NAT network to 192.168/16 ) it started working after setting the NIC type to PCnet-PCI II.

Can you give a more detailed explanation of that process? Where/how I can change the NAT network, etc?

PS: The current SXCE (snv93) seems to work. Maybe it is a snv86 Kernel problem?

[Robert Munteanu]

Replying to DevUrandom:

Replying to rombert:

I have encountered the same problem, and after multiple reboots ( and changing the NAT network to 192.168/16 ) it started working after setting the NIC type to PCnet-PCI II.

Can you give a more detailed explanation of that process? Where/how I can change the NAT network, etc?

I have changed the NAT network with

VBoxManage modifyvm "<vm_name>" -natnet1 "192.168/16"

However that did not work but I tried it because the 10.x range is also used internally for the local network.

As for the NIC type, I changed that using the VirtualBox GUI.

PS: The current SXCE (snv93) seems to work. Maybe it is a snv86 Kernel problem?

It's a possibility that it is a network driver problem ( since changing the NIC type solved this ).

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if this is still an issue with the latest release (2.2.0). Make sure to select an E1000 NIC.