[Cialug] vmware player - bridged network?

[Don Cady]

Great! Now you can have fun finding out why we like it so..

While we're on the topic, anyone have any thoughts on VMWare
'opening' their specs or Apple's new bootbox (or whatever it's called) ?

Don


> OK, not sure if this is the RIGHT way to do it, but I got it working.
>
> In WinXP's network connections, I changed the virtual ethernet interface
> that my linux virtual instance was using to a static IP 10.10.0.28. Then I
> had to completely shut down the vmware session (rebooting the virtual
> linux instance didn't do it). When it came back up, it got a dhcp address
> from my LAN of 10.10.0.184. So my PC is now using 3 ip addresses...
>
> -dc
>
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2006, dave at visionary.com said:
>
>> I'm messing with a WinXP hosted vmware player session in which I've
>> installed a copy of Mandriva Linux 2006. This was pretty simple to set 
>> up,
>> I'll send the links on how I did it later if anyone's interested...
>>
>> My goal is to be able to have the virtual linux host available to other
>> people. Here's how it's currently set up:
>>
>> My XP workstation has an IP address of 10.10.0.27. VMWare player sets up
>> virtual ethernet connections in a 192.168.x.x network. My virtual Linux
>> instance is currently using dhcp to get an IP, and it gets 
>> 192.168.56.128,
>> with a gateway of 192.168.52.2.
>>
>> The vmware player has an "ethernet" selector at the top, which I've set 
>> to
>> "Bridged". But I'm not yet able to connect to the virtual Linux instance
>> on my LAN (the 10.10.0.x network). I can see it from the XP host on the
>> 192.168.56.128 IP address.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to make this work?
>>
>> -dc
>>
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