My host is Ubuntu 12.04 and I have installed Virtual Box on it. Network setting of Virtual Box is NAT.  Then I have Oracle Enterprise Linux as guest.  Now I want to set a static IP for my guest, because it's one of pre-requisites of oracle installation.  I tried setting static IP using "Applications menu -> System Settings -> Network" but oracle installer complains about dhcp IP again.  Any helps are appreciated. My Linux knowledge is so limited.  P.S: In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 I have   BOOTPROTO=none   Since I'm using Virtual Box I guess this is different from other questions about static/dhcp ip.
I installed Redhat 6 x86_64. I am using the Network connection screen to set a static IP address like below (I want two PC's in my house to see each other: one Redhat PC and one Mac)   192.168.0.5   255.255.255.0   192.168.0.1     When I run ifconfig it displays only lo and virbr0 information. I don't know what these items are (I don't really know much about network settings).   When I try ifconfig -a it displays eth0, lo, sit0 and virbr0. The information for  eth0 is as follows:   Link encap : Ethernet HWaddr 90:2B:34:74:05:30 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes 53811 (52.5 KiB) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) Interrupt:29 Base address:0xc000   Could someone help me to point out if anything wrong with my setting or how to resolve this problem?
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If you've ever ran this command you pretty much immediately destroy your operating system. I'm not clear why removing restrictions has any impact on existing processes. For example, if I don't have read access to something and after a quick mistype in the terminal suddenly I now have access well... why does that cause Linux to break? Long story short  I have two computers: a laptop and a desktop computer. Both have Windows 7 on them.  I buy the Windows 8 Pro upgrade. To see if it screws up anything, I install it on my laptop as a guinea pig. I intend to use Windows 8 for my main computer, my desktop, but I want to test it on the laptop, so I know I don’t risk losing access to my desktop and the data on it. I never use my laptop, and only used it, because it already has a Windows 7 installation on it.  The problem  At some point, I must have entered the license key on my laptop, because when I go to the activation screen on my desktop, I get this:    Uh-oh. 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