Could int able to modify the ipaddress in Centos installed inside virtualbox

jsaravana87 · 06-01-2012, 02:50 AM

Hi all,
I have installed centos 6.2 in vitualbox in windows xp. After default installation i try to change the ipadress of centos operating system in virtualbox .Our local lan network ipadrress
10.200.2.37 255.255.255.0 10.200.2.3 .But it's picking up default dhcp ipaddress.Whether virtualbox works on static ipaddress alone.Can anyone help me

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\admin>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.203.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.31.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.200.2.36
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.200.2.3

C:\Documents and Settings\admin>

Quote:

After changing of ipadress i try to restart the centos box to pick the ipaddress of our local lan network ,But it restarted with any sort of error .but it doesint pick my local ipaddress

[centos@localhost Desktop]$ service network restart
[centos@localhost Desktop]$

centos 5.4 in virtualbox

[centos@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29

1:46:19
inet addr:192.168.203.147 Bcast:192.168.203.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fed1:4619/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6670 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9500579 (9.0 MiB) TX bytes:237294 (231.7 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 b) TX bytes:480 (480.0 b)

deep27ak · 06-02-2012, 08:06 AM

what networking mode are you using for virtual box. If you want your vm to act as a standalone machine the networking mode should be bridged and from the description you have provided it seems the vm is configured for NAT mode networking.

and secondly if the networking is bridged then I would like to know the method you are using to change the IP address?
system-config-network
of manually by making changes in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0