Hi,


I have installed Fedora Rel 15 on VirtualBox Ver. 4.1.0. Both are the latest releases that I have downloaded and installed.

The problem that I am facing is I am not able to configure Network Interface on the VM. I have already created a Bridged Network on my Host OS which is Windows XP SP 3.

In the Network Settings of the VM, I have specified Bridged Network instead of NAT or any other whatsoever. Still, the VM is not picking it.

ifconfig outputs the default lo and one other strange interface: p2pl

which is not found in the directory: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*

So, how do I assign a static IP to this VM?

It is also strange that Fedora (this Fedora that I downloaded and installed) does not have even wget command and compilers such as gc or gcc.

I want to install them and therefore need to browse the Internet on the VM and also access it remotely through Putty.

I have done all that before but I used RHEL 5 and it was working fine.

When I issue the command: system-config-network there is nothing in the Network Devices/Interfaces list. Only Save and Cancel buttons are there.

Any ideas, Gurus?

Check the Fedora release notes. They describe this new "improved" way of specifying network interfaces. eth0 and eth1 might switch on reboot if they are managed by different drivers that happen to be loaded in different order, but p2p1 is guaranteed to always be p2p1.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...tes-Networking

Now for the tricky part: "Fedora running as a guest virtual machine will continue to use the ethX names" Hmm - you seem to be caught in the middle.
I have two interfaces -- an ifcfg-eth0 and an ifcfg-p3p1 file on my system that looks and works just like the old ifcfg-eth1 file.
If you use NetworkMangler (sorry, NetworkManager) it should create this file. Try configuring p2p1 there; also check thru the release notes to see if anything applies.