It seems that overnight I lost my internet connection to my VM.  If I

 ping -c4 google.com

,  I get back

ping: unknown host google.com

.

But if I

ping -c4 8.8.8.8

, I get back

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8. 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=47 time 23.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=47 time 25.9 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=47 time 24.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=4 ttl=47 time 22.7 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 22.744/24.135/25.963/1.334 ms

 

I did try to change the network from dhcp to static by editing

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

.  I modified that by adding

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.116
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 192.168.1.1

 

It was working fine last night and this morning I'm able to computers are able to talk to each other.  The reason I wanted the static address is for the xbmc devices around the house to talk with the MariaDB and stay in sync for when my kids try to watch a movie.

 

I've tried deleting those changes and making

iface eth0 inet dhcp

and then restarting the network by typing

sudo service network-manager restart

and by restarting the VM but neither did anything.

 

Any help?

Solved it by googling......it just took a long time.  I needed to

sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0

after that internet was back up and running.