SuperSniffer 0 Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 Hi! I've been trying to get a couple of Virtualbox VMs running with a bridged network connection for the past couple of days with no real luck. My host is Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, and the VMs are Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I actually seemed to have a bit of luck with Mint -- I can ping IP addresses successfully, and I can visit sites by IP address just fine. However, domain resolution doesn't work! I've traced the problem down to OA (on the host). If I disable the "OA Helper Driver" under my network adapter, everything works beautifully. As soon as I re-enable it, DNS fails again. I've tried using both my router's DNS as well as public DNS without any luck. It's as if the request isn't going through or completing. Any ideas? I'd really like to get bridged networking set up, and I've been pulling my hair out trying to get this working! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stapp 152 Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 As far as I am aware SuperSniffer this still applies http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/5208-known-online-armor-issues/page__p__31548#entry31548 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuperSniffer 0 Posted June 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 Really? Shoot. Is there any progress on a fix for it, or some kind of workaround? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fabian Wosar 390 Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 The problem is not on our end. We tried to approach the VirtualBox developers multiple times over the past years without even as much as an acknowledgement that the problem exists. It's not an incompatibility with Online Armor only either. When you look through the VirtualBox bug tracker you will find a whole list of applications the VirtualBox networking has troubles with. Newer versions of Online Armor won't even install if the VirtualBox bridged networking driver is found installed on the system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuperSniffer 0 Posted June 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Thanks so much for your reply Fabian! That's a real shame about VB - I see what you mean about the long list of incompatible apps. You'd think they could get their act together! Do you know if bridged networking in VMware is any better? If it is, I suppose I could switch over to that. Thanks again! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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