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I have the latest VirtualBox installed on Windows 7 Pro. I created NatNetwork with 10.10.10.0/27 and DHCP enabled and Host-only network with 172.17.24.0/27 and DHCP enabled too.

Created Virtual Machine as Red Hat Linux and installed CentOS 7 on it.

After multiple issues for whatever reason I have a wrong IP given by DHCP server to enp0s8 interface.

This is client side:

[root@smu1 ~]# ifconfig enp0s8
enp0s8: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 inet 10.0.2.6 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 10.0.2.31
 inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe41:58ae prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
 ether 08:00:27:41:58:ae txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
 RX packets 13 bytes 3430 (3.3 KiB)
 RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
 TX packets 207 bytes 23996 (23.4 KiB)
 TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

[root@smu1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s8
TYPE="Ethernet"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
DEFROUTE="yes"
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6_AUTOCONF="yes"
IPV6_DEFROUTE="yes"
IPV6_PEERDNS="yes"
IPV6_PEERROUTES="yes"
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE="stable-privacy"
NAME="enp0s8"
UUID="77e14c77-358e-48c3-be0c-e18d75cecc5a"
DEVICE="enp0s8"
ONBOOT="yes"
PEERDNS=no
PEERROUTES=yes

This is host side:

C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list natnetworks
NetworkName: NatNetwork
IP: 10.10.10.1
Network: 10.10.10.0/27
IPv6 Enabled: No
IPv6 Prefix: fd17:625c:f037:2::/64
DHCP Enabled: Yes
Enabled: Yes
loopback mappings (ipv4)
 127.0.0.1=2
C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list dhcpservers
NetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter
IP: 172.17.24.4
NetworkMask: 255.255.255.224
lowerIPAddress: 172.17.24.5
upperIPAddress: 172.17.24.30
Enabled: Yes

NetworkName: NatNetwork
IP: 10.10.10.4
NetworkMask: 255.255.255.224
lowerIPAddress: 10.10.10.5
upperIPAddress: 10.10.10.30
Enabled: Yes

Exactly the same settings for host-only network work great! No issues at all.

[root@smu1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_PEERDNS=yes
IPV6_PEERROUTES=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy
NAME=enp0s3
UUID=b012704e-cc06-4ece-b4ea-7a12bed03f27
DEVICE=enp0s3
ONBOOT=yes
PEERDNS=no
PEERROUTES=no
[root@smu1 ~]# ifconfig enp0s3
enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 inet 172.17.24.6 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 172.17.24.31
 inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe46:c2b prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
 ether 08:00:27:46:0c:2b txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
 RX packets 292 bytes 29717 (29.0 KiB)
 RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
 TX packets 238 bytes 46906 (45.8 KiB)
 TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

I tried reboots of both host and guest, delete and re-create natnetwork and dhcp server from command line (did it once again after disabled completely UAC in Windows).

Not sure what was wrong, perhaps because I manually assigned 10.10.10.4 as DHCP server IP and VirtualBox doesn't like it...
I created natnet1 from GUI for another network, deleted 10.10.10.0/27 from CMD, tested that DHCP is now giving proper IP from network natnet1, created natnet10 with network I originally needed and deleted natnet1.
Now the IP is assigned as expected.
DHCP server IP is 10.10.10.3 and not .4 as I manually assigned in failure scenario.
Perhaps some internal limitations from VirtualBox on which IP can be DHCP server in NatNetwork...
If anyone want to test this theory fill free.

Problem solved.