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Hey all, no matter what Network Adapter I use on VirtualBox for my newly setup Ubuntu VM, I cannot get a valid IP when I do ipconfig. All I get is a loopback address. Does anyone know what I would do to fix this and which Network Adapter in VirtualBox I would use to properly connect to my actual PC (host) and the outside world?

Thanks, Darren

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for anyone with the same problem this is how you would do this: change eth0 to eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces, and choose the bridged network.

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The proper way would be to first check your available interfaces with ifconfig -a and then configure the appropriate interface. FYI: In your case, the kernel renames the interface to eth1 during bootup because of the persistent-net-rules in udev. – sybreon Dec 5 '10 at 6:56
Thanks for that command it helped. – Darren Dec 7 '10 at 19:40
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