Mac Virtualbox Centos7

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  2. Osx Virtualbox Centos 7
  3. Install Virtualbox Centos 7 Server

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Recently I wanted to create a Centos 7 Virtual machine on my Macbook Air (OS El Capitain – 10.11.3), as usual I downloaded an Iso from the net (The minimal Centos 7 Iso Installation).

Sigma sport driver download. And as I will want to access my Virtual machine from other computers I wanted to bridge the network.

But I don’t know why I can’t retrieve an IP address from my DHCP Server, so I defined a static IP Address and the network worked fine.

Define the Bridge Adapter in Virtual Box

First in the configuration of the virtual machine on VirtualBox, I attached a network card bridged on the Wi-Fi (en0: Wi-Fi (Airport)).

Define Static Ip Address in Centos 7

First you need to find the name of the interface bridged, so in the virtual machine simply execute the command :

You should obtain something like this :

The name enp0s3 is what we are looking for.

So now you can edit the file : /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3

  • /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3
  1. static mean that you want to set the Ip address manually
  2. This is the IP Address you want for your virtual machine, in my case it is : 192.168.1.211
  3. The netmask depends on your network setting, usually you can set the same of your host computer
  4. Be sure to have the ONBOOT option set to yes for starting the network on virtual machine boot.

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And finally you need to active the network by editing the file :

  • /etc/sysconfig/network
  1. The IP address of the gateway depends on your network configuration.

And now you can restart the network :

Or reboot your virtual machine.

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And Test ping pinging some ip (192.168.1.1 / 8.8.8.8)/ domain names : (www.google.com).

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Osx Virtualbox Centos 7

And now you can access to your virtual machine.

Install Virtualbox Centos 7 Server

I don’t know why i can’t obtain an IP address from my DHCP using bridged networking on Wi-Fi, but the Static IP is a satisfying workaround for me.