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Under the default configuration, VBox gives the guest an IP along the lines of 10.0.1.xxx. For many, this really messes with sharing and subnets. After some investigation, it turns out that VBox defaults to using NAT. To adjust the settings for your guest such that it DHCPs from your router, with ...

Thanks Doug,

I've got Ubuntu running in virtualBox from XP (I know, backwards from your point of view). Anyhow, easy fix and worked like a charm. Perhaps now I can do something more with perl than the stuff from windows seems to wanna let me do.

Thanks!

We've all heard the expression, "expect the unexpected" or perhaps "keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary".

To offer another example, I'll say "keep your nose to the air" or "use *all* your senses." Anecdotally, I recall a time just munging around trying to breath some new life into an ...