Virtuabox Cannot ping Host From Guest

ally_uk

hey guys Windows 7 box is my Host

192.168.1.4
255.255.255.0
192.168.1.1

Disabled the firewall on 7 and after doing that I can Ping My Virtual Server which Is Ubuntu Server, the problem I am having is I cannot seem to Ping from The Server to the Host.

Here are the details of the Server ( Ubuntu ) I am not to sure what the hell network and broadcast are I copied a example config if somebody can shed some light on what these do that would be great didn't want to post in a Linux forum and be called a idiot lol

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.4
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255

When I try a ping or tracert nothing happens I have set the network adapter to Bridged in Virtual Box


Many Thanks I love this forum

CodeBlox

Your host and guest both have the same IP address?

ally_uk

Whoops my bad changed the I.P address to 192.168.1.3 still unable to ping the Windows 7 Host

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:b9:bc:e6
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feb9:bce6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2030 (2.0 KB) TX bytes:7484 (7.4 KB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd020

ally_uk

Added entry to hosts in linux

root@shinobi:/etc# cat hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 shinobi
192.1.68.1.4 user-PC

I am now really stumped can ping my router from linux 192.168.1.1 and websites i.e Google so I assume DNS is properly working, just cannot seem to ping the Hostmachine tried doing a traceroute to 192.168.1.4

traceroute to 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 * * *
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Qord

You wired or wireless?

vinbuck

Have you tried disabling the ubuntu firewall? Have you tried assigning the same IP address on the Windows host to another device and removing the windows host from the network temporarily?

Also, is this all virtually networked, or is the physical network gear in play?

CodeBlox

I believe i found your solution. The same thing happened to me and my host is win7 pro. I have an ubuntu guest as well.. You have to add the exception for ICMP echo request through the firewall. After I did that, my pings returned. This exception is to be added to the windows 7 host firewall. Let me know if you need the specific steps on how to do it.

EDIT: Here is how to:

1) Open "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security"
2) Right click "Inbound Rules"
3) Click New Rule...
4) Select a rule type of "Custom"
5) Click next
6) Click next again
7) For protocol type, select "ICMPv4"
Click customize
9) Specific ICMP types
10) Check the box for "Echo Request"
11) Click next
12) Click next (allowing this for all IP addresses)
13) Allow the connection
14) Next
15) Next
16) Give it a name

Should be good to go. Let me know if it works for you!

I find it odd that you disabled the firewall and the pings still did not return. You positive you disabled it for the proper network? You can disable for public/private networks. The instant I add the exception to my firewall the pings return

Michael.J.Palmer

The above post may resolve it but I never really had these issues with Virtual Box before, make sure that you've changed the network settings in VBox to be a bridged connection instead of NAT, I guess that could have something to do with it as well.

ally_uk

I am running Ethernet, And I have set the settings to Bridge in VirutalBox, the firewall has been set to off in Windows 7, Before I did this I wasn't able to ping from Win7 to Ubuntu.

So by disabling the firewall in Win7 I can now ping from Host to Guest

Win 7 > Ubuntu Server, but when I tried the other way around nothing happens.

I will try adding the icmp exception in the firewall and see if this makes any difference. On the Ubuntu server side I'm not to sure if I have a firewall running, I am running LXDE as the GUI, How would I check if a firewall is running?

ally_uk

Unless there is a firewall running on my Dlink router?

ally_uk

This has now been resolved, create a rule in the windows firewall to allow icmp requests