Virtualbox Squeeze guest network client failure

[Jan de Haan <haan.j.de@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

    to document and maybe save someone else the time:

    I installed a pristine Debian 6.0 Squeeze guest/client under VirtualBox 3.1.6

and got the problem that the network interface didn't get an (dhcp suplied) ip address.

It's a squeeze problem since dhcp of the pxe boot of the client (which was used to install 

Squeeze) does function.

    I was able to work around this by disabling  allow-hotplug in /etc/network/interfaces

and adding an auto statement:

# allow-hotplug eth0

auto eth0

Sincerely,

Jan.

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