On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:
>> On 04/27/2016 06:10 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>>>
>>> The /etc/sysconf/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s8 files does exist, but
>>> the only entries that I recognize now are BOOTPROTO and ONBOOT;
>>> everything else looks like IPV6.
>>>
>>>    I'd rather have IPV4 and I'm pretty sure that is what I want to use
>>> from VirtualBox.
>>>
>>> I'm not ready to dive into IPV6.
>>>
>>> i'd really like to have a compatible and functional set of entries
>>> that are based on IPV4, but if I look at a sample from a long time
>>> ago, I don't know if those entries will still be understood by the
>>> current OS.
>>>
>> Here's a sample ifcfg-enp0s8 file for you:
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>> DEVICE=enp0s8
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> UUID=d211cad8-d15d-46a1-b94d-2a42def47212
>> HWADDR=<put MAC here>
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> DEFROUTE=yes
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> PEERROUTES=yes
>> IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
>> NAME="System enp0s8"
>>
>> Put the actual MAC address in the right line or it might work if you
>> completely remove that line.  The problem is that I don't know how you've
>> configured the networking in virtualbox.  I've never even used virtualbox so
>> I can't help you at all there.  I only use KVM.  But if virtualbox isn't
>> offering dhcp on that interface (which would make sense, since the other
>> interface is the default one), then this won't work.  You will have to setup
>> a manual ip address config in the file. If that's the case, then let me know
>> the ip address you want and I will create a config file for you.
>>
>
> Thanks for the great support!
> I've finally figured out how to enable the DHCP server on the
> VirtualBox (Windows) host.
> I used most of of your suggested entries.
> I think I have to enable sshd on my vm now.
> Thanks,
> Ken

I can ssh into my vm now!

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott
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