The problem was solved when I changed the configuration a little bit in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. I appended the following lines to the file.

I would get a message telling me 'network is unreachable'. I was able to ping other VMs and my host machine and from both the guest and the host, but not able to ping google.ca. The issue was that I was behind a router and it wasn't reaching external networks. I eventually came across a post in the Debian forums that gave a couple of commands that I punched into the shell, more specifically the route command. After some googling and banging my head on my keyboard trying to find a solution I had come up with nothing that had worked. I tried using NAT, bridged, and host-only options in the network settings for the VM and still no such luck. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on the host machine.Īfter I had installed CentOS 6.2 in a virtual machine I ran into trouble with connecting to the internet. The project I am working on involves using multiple distributions of Linux, and since I don't want to multi-boot I am using VirtualBox to develop specific things for each distro.

Since this is the first post here I will explain that I have started working on a project and am going to use this blog to document progress and post various problems I run into with the solutions that worked for me.

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