can't ping from mac host to windows guest in virtual box

Question

I am trying to ping to the windows 7 guest in virtual machine from mac host. but I get below message

ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5

I set bridged-network in network setting and turned off firewalls in windows machine with no luck. I have installed yosemite in mac. Is there any reason for this?

Solution 1

I could solve this by following the steps below.

1. Created a host-only adapter by going to setting of virtual machine as below

2. Check the first three decimal parts of windows 7 virtual machine ip address

   ex : It is 192.168.56 in my case

3. Go to virtual box -> Preferences -> Network. Select the host-only Networks tab. click the edit button. Change the first three decimal parts of IPv4 address of Adapter tab as in windows 7 virtual machine ip address.

Now you should be able to ping guest windows 7 from host mac.

Solution 2

Check the network profile. In Windows 7 you have a firewall for each network profile.

• Control Panel -> System and Security -> Windows Firewall

Comments

[Kenster]

What IP addresses do the host and guest have? What address are you actually trying to ping?

[bertieb]

Since the OP mentioned he turned off firewalls, and since there is a No route to host reported; this suggestion would perhaps be better provided as a comment.