How to access the internet from a virtual machine in Gnome Boxes?

Question

I installed Gnome Boxes, created a new virtual machine and booted an ISO. The ISO boots up fine and the network inside the virtual machine got automatically configured by the distro (with dhcpd):

• IP enp0s3 got the IP 10.0.2.15
• DNS nameserver: 10.0.2.3
• Gateway default: 10.0.2.2

Both other hosts are up and I can ping all IPs. DNS works too. But I can't ping anything not on the local net.

Solution

Thanks to a user in the german Arch-Linux board I got an answer: Boxes uses NAT for the host, and some protocols (like ICMP) aren't working. So I couldn't use ping, tracepath and the like, but the network and an installation works nevertheless.

Comments

[jedi]

Are you able to ssh onto the virtual machine from your host? I can't. What connection type are you using?

[Brutus]

@jedi Sorry, I can't remember if that worked (question was asked over 4 years ago). I assume that it worked (in the local net at least), cause the box provided some deamons. I don't have Boxes installed anymore, maybe someone else can provide an answer.