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Not able to ping my host laptop from Oracle Virtual Box

SandeepK88Mar 8 2017 — edited Mar 9 2017

Hi All,

I have installed Oracle Virtual Box on my laptop, and configured a RHEL servers on my system. However I'm not able to ping the servers from the host computer(which has Win2007 installed) ,and also vice versa.

Can you please help me with this.

Below are few more details:

RHEL server 1 details:

[root@test ~]# hostname

test.localdomain

[root@test ~]# cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

192.168.56.101 test test.localdomain

Below are the network adapters I'm using:

<<Screenshot attached>>

Ethernet information are as mentioned below:

<<Doc screenshot attached>>

With this configuration ping to the internet sites are working fine:

[root@test ~]# ping google.com

PING google.com (216.58.196.78) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from kul01s09-in-f78.1e100.net (216.58.196.78): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=90.7 ms

64 bytes from kul01s09-in-f78.1e100.net (216.58.196.78): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=90.6 ms

64 bytes from kul01s09-in-f78.1e100.net (216.58.196.78): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=97.1 ms

64 bytes from kul01s09-in-f78.1e100.net (216.58.196.78): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=90.9 ms

However I'm unable to access my VM hosts from my host laptop's Putty, neither able to ping them from CMD on my laptop.

Details of my host computer: ie my laptop:

C:\Users\esapkay>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : ericsson.se

   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c1a6:885:c0b7:7430%12

   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 169.144.53.25

   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0

   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 169.144.52.1

Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c5ff:a2b7:37e2:1f2a%27

   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1

   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Tunnel adapter isatap.ericsson.se:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : ericsson.se

Tunnel adapter isatap.{5F5B08F0-6675-47D6-B284-1F86FE03E4D4}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Tunnel adapter 6TO4 Adapter:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : ericsson.se

   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:a990:3519::a990:3519

   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Tunnel adapter isatap.{9ACFEB90-B026-43B6-8DAA-373598201FD7}:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

Can anyone please help me with this regard.

Thanks,

Sandeep

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