Bridge Network on OSX & virtual box does not work well.

[alex4u2nv]

As a workaround, I've changed this to use a pre-configured host-only network
alfresco-boxes/packer/precise-alf421.json

@@ -43,19 +43,15 @@
                     "{{.Name}}",
                     "--nic1",
                     "nat"
-                ],
-                [
+                ],[
                     "modifyvm",
                     "{{.Name}}",
                     "--nic2",
-                    "bridged"
-                ],
-                [
-                  "modifyvm",
-                  "{{.Name}}",
-                  "--bridgeadapter2",
-                  "en1"
+                    "hostonly",
+           "--hostonlyadapter2",
+           "vboxnet0"
                 ]
+       
             ],

[maoo]

Thanks Alex! I had to execute the following in order to create vboxnet0

VBoxManage hostonlyif create >/dev/null 2>&1

I'll add it to the docs as soon as I push your changes to master.

I'd like to use this interface to set a known static ip; I wrote https://github.com/maoo/alfresco-boxes/blob/master/common/scripts/static-ip.sh for this reason, should work also on a host-only interface

[maoo]

We need to investigate further how to pass IP (instead of 192.168.56.1) and if-name to the VBoxManage command

[maoo]

Here's the missing part:

vboxmanage hostonlyif ipconfig vboxnet0 --ip 192.168.1.223 --netmask 255.255.255.0

[maoo]

Tested successfully and added documentation in packer/README.md.
Closing the issue