so…you’re on mac os x and you install ubuntu on your virtualbox and then…networking doesn’t work at all? Like at all? No IP Address?
1) go to devices | network adapters and make sure device 0 is checked
run wget google.com
should work
if not
run
sudo dhclient #might help — restarts your dhcp
networking from your virtualbox to your mac: you can just connect straight from your virtualbox to the IP address of your “mother” mac! mtu 1500
ex:
in mac
~ /sbin/ifconfig en1
en1: flags=8863
inet6 fe80::21e:52ff:fe76:3054%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×6
inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
then within ubuntu in a virtualbox:
wget 192.168.0.3 # and it works!
to sync the mouse from ubuntu and os x, looks like you install the guest additions thus:
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/10/13/installing-guest-additions-for-ubuntu-guests-in-virtualbox/
those guest additions also allow you to have higher graphics modes/resolution within the guest OS. Sweet!
overall it works [though crashes when you share folders between them]. I’d call this a nice, high quality, working, free replacement for fusion or parallels. It’s even open source!
how to install gcc on ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential