Ipadm:operation failed

Question

I am studying Solaris 11 in Virtualbox (64bit). I want to create network interface with command:

ipadm create-ip net3

But terminal says that

ipadm:cannot create interface net3:Operation failed

I stuck at this moment.Where is the problem?

EDIT: I am already root. maybe virtualbox is causing this problem?

Answer 1

You are probably using an automatic network profile. If it is the case, many ipadm commands won't work by design.

You can switch to a fixed IP network profile with this command:

  netadm enable -p ncp defaultfixed

Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1458/gljtt.html

Edit:

You only have one NIC configured in virtual box so there is no net3 to start with.

On non virtualized hardware, you could create a vnic that share the same physical interface as net0:

dladm create-vnic -t -l net0 vnic0
ipadm create-ip vnic0

However, as you are running on virtualized hardware, the networking emulation would likely be confused by the extra mac address so your best bet is to enable the fourth interface in your VM configuration in order to have net3 available.

Answer 2

the reason behind is that the interface is already used , you can not create