[ale] No eth0 with Opensuse 12.3 in virtualbox

[Jonathan Meek]

Turns out I had VirtualBox set to the wrong adapter type. So changed the
adapter type after shutting down the machine and then booted it up without
issue. Thanks everyone.

Regards,

Jonathan


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> check the setting s files for the interfaces in the VM and see if they are
> set to not start on boot.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Meek <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> JD,
>>
>> According to their site, Virtualbox does support virtio.
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> I have double-checked my settings in virtualBox for the NIC and in the
>> process of restarting the box, so I will see what happens.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:53 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you use virtio devices, don't the device names change?  Perhaps that
>>> is just
>>> for HDDs, not NICs?
>>>
>>> Does virtualbox support virtio?
>>>
>>> On 08/13/2013 11:34 AM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
>>> > Hello everyone,
>>> >
>>> > I have got what I think is a dumb question but here goes it: I have
>>> just
>>> > installed Opensuse 12.3 within virtualbox but I have no eth0 on the
>>> VM. I have
>>> > pulled up ifconfig and it just tells me I have a feedback loop (lo).
>>>  How would
>>> > I begin to troubleshoot this?
>>> >
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