“connect: Network is unreachable” in VirtualBox VM [closed]

Question

Host: WinXP, guest: Ubuntu 12.10, connection type: only NAT. Kernel IP routing table (route -n) contains only header

ifconfig:

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:c6:86:82  
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fec6:8682/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:4391 (4.3 KB)


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:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1184 (1.1 KB)  TX bytes:1184 (1.1 KB)

ping of any internet address gives error:

connect: Network is unreachable

How to connect to the internet from VM? What settings should be in the Network Connections -> DSL (or Wired?)

Answer 1

The output of ifconfig indicates that there is no IP set on the eth2 interface. First you need to assign IP on eth2 as

sudo ifconfig eth2 192.168.1.100

if you want to assign 192.168.1.100 as static IP on the interface. Else use

sudo dhclient eth2

to obtain IP from DHCP server