Oh the pain...oh the agony. Virtual machine is working (for the time being) on Windows 7 Home Premium Edition.

[DavidD]

Nobody needs to work on getting VirtualBox running on Windows (since Sheng already has his working, and we now have ours working).  Maria can use my machine as a server.

Unfortunately, I "think" I know the steps that I went through to get it to work.   But, I tried SO MANY things, I can't be guaranteed what was necessary.   The last two things I tried were:

1. For some reason, Windows 7 Home Premium edition VirtualBox's settings for the MAC addresses for the network settings are not correct.  I don't know if VirtualBox is not "respecting" those settings or what the issue is.  But, whatever the case, I had to run "ifconfig -a" to get all the network interfaces, then grab the MAC address for eth0, and then go edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and type in the correct MAC address obtained from "ifconfig -a", and then restart the network.

2. Now that I had a valid eth0, within the Settings/Network for the NAT network adapter, I had to wipe out the guest IPs for the Port Forwarding.  And, I had to add a "Bridge Adapter" that was correctly configured for my Windows network adapter (thanks Sheng).

3. I did a few other things like mucking with the Windows firewall, but I don't think they had any affect (other than to allow Maria to get to my virtual machine).  So, hopefully, when Victor gives us a new drop of the VM, it should be straightforward to import it.

That's all for now.

David

[victor semenov]

Well done man! This is a huge relief, I was pretty much out of ideas about where to go next besides using the real server to develop against.