Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:38:27 -0400 From: "Charles N. Owens" <owensc@enc.edu> To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: vmware BRIDGE support, concurrent guests Message-ID: <391814D3.446B807E@enc.edu>
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> On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 07:25:51PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >> - Are you planning on implementing the bridged networking feature? >> I'm just using NATD now in combination with host-only networking & all >> I care about is working fine. But I was just curious. > > I really don't know what is the sense of bridging networking, may > only to use some brain damaged protocols such as NetBEUI. If someone > really needed the bridge networking, probable much more easy to enable > BRIDGE support in kernel, and added support for bridge in the vmnet > driver. First let me say a big "Thanks!" to Vladimir for doing the vmware port! Very cool! [ Vladimir, the second paragraph above it yours, btw. ] I agree that doing this via kernel BRIDGE support is the way to go. Are we any closer to having this supported in vmnet.ko? I actually think support for bridged networking makes a good deal of sense. Once the host is set up for bridging it makes the network configuation of guest OSes much simpler. I use Vmware to test various operating systems... instead of having multiple dedicated test computers lying around. My preference is for the guest OS to interact with the outside LAN exactly as it would on a "normal" computer. We may also begin using vmware on numerous desktops... it such an environment I feel that bridged networking is much more manageable. Secondly... is the "only one guest at a time" limit expected to go away anytime soon? Thanks much, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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