No networking for Centos under VirtualBox

Question

Running an Ubuntu desktop server. I installed virtual box, then installed CentOS as a virtual machine. Centos is not starting the eth0 network adaptor. When I start it manually, I cannot connect outside the machine.

Anyone know what I've done wrong? I'm new to Virtual Box and somewhat new to CentOS.

Virtual Box 4.1.12 and CentOS 6.2 and Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. Using NAT addressing.

Networking for the Main Server:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr c8:60:00:12:a7:9a  
          inet addr:10.0.0.99  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::ca60:ff:fe12:a79a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3083151 (3.0 MB)  TX bytes:1104784 (1.1 MB)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0x4000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:6398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:789448 (789.4 KB)  TX bytes:789448 (789.4 KB)

Networking for the CentOS virtual Server:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:75:b2:9ac2
          inet addr:10.0.0.98  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe75:b2c2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1350 (1.3 KiB)


lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:6398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:789448 (789.4 KB)  TX bytes:789448 (789.4 KB)

Answer 1

The issue with this appears to have been the NAT setting. It requires you to use 10.0.2.* addresses.

Also, when I thought about, NAT doesn't provide me with external access to that IP address. I changed it to bridged and everything now appears to be working.

Thanks for the help.