Accessing the Internet or Wireless Connection from within a VM Linux

devUnix · 01-19-2012, 03:40 PM

Hi,

I am using a Windows XP Host OS top of which I have VirtualBox running a Linux Guest OS:

Code:

cat /etc/issue
CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

I have turned off Firewalls on both the systems and am able to ping each other. So far okay.

I have a Wireless Broad-Band connection (Internet Data Card) that I use to access the Internet on the Host OS Windows XP. However, I am not able to access the Internet or open any website inside the Guest OS Linux. When I access my website that is running on Windows IIS, it works fine. But, then, why am I not able to open any other website from the Internet?

That is the problem.

Earlier I was using RHEL 5 and Fedora and Internet would fine without doing any configuration.

I just checked under Linux:

Systems -> Preferences -> Network Connections

but could not get it. There is a Tab for Wireless device/connection but I am not sure what to type in:

SSID, BSSID, MAC Address, Cloned MAC Address, etc. as those pieces of information is not available with me or not known to me to obtain them from somewhere/some file.

TobiSGD · 01-19-2012, 05:11 PM

The OS in the VM normally doesn't see your physical hardware, it will connect through an virtual ethernet adapter to your host. Which setting do you have applied to the network connection (bridged, NAT, host-only, ...)? It should work when it is set to NAT, bridged will also work if you are connected wired, don't know about wireless.

devUnix · 01-20-2012, 03:24 PM

TobiSGD:

Bridged is in place. Earlier on a different RHEL 5.1 VM I used to use a Wired / BroadBand connection without any problem and without having to configure any settings.

TobiSGD · 01-21-2012, 09:01 AM

Bridged isn't a problem with wired connections, your router will just give it another free IP- I don't know how this works with wireless connections. I would just set it to NAT and bet that it works.