May 2014, 22:23 Primary OS: MS Windows 8 VBox Version: OSE other Guest OSses: Xubuntu 14.

What other information should I provide to get to the bottom of this? cdef Posts: 5 Joined: 9. I've tried searching the forums endlessly, but none of the solutions that I found have helped. The only additional network adapter that I currently see in Device Manager is the VirtualBox Host-only Ethernet Adapter, but when I view the properties for my actual network adapter I see that the VirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver is present and enabled. I have tried running the installer as administrator and with normal permissions, I have tried installing with/without the host-only adapter, I have tried disabling the Windows firewall, I've tried bridging network adapters, but the result is always the same. The network operation failed with the following error: Unknown reason The error I instantly receive is as follows: If you're experiencing that quite often your clients get that error, you can find a workaround here: Section B.3.2.2.1, Connection to MySQL Server Failing on Windows. I have installed VirtualBox 4.3.10 on a fresh Windows 8.1 Update 1 Pro 64 bit host installation, and VirtualBox cannot connect to check for updates. You're running a MySQL server on Windows with many TCP/IP connections to it.

Err_connection_failed windows 8