Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 00:47:44 -0600 From: Doug Poland <dpoland@polands.org> To: drsmithy@usa.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare and bridging Message-ID: <20010304004744.A6656@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <01030411550702.01924@area51.thehouse> References: <01030411550702.01924@area51.thehouse>
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On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:55:07AM +1000, Christopher Smith wrote: > I'm trying to get the VMWare2 port running under FreeBSD-4.2 with little > success. The port installs fine and during the installation I tell it to use > fxp0 (the only NIC in this machine) as the bridging interface. The vmware > startup scripts appear to execute correctly on boot (no error messages) but > the card still doesn't work in the VMWare machine. I originally had the > VMWare machine's config set to use bridging and it complained about not being > able to find the device. On reading the docs in /usr/local/share/doc/vmware > I tried changing the setting to "host only" which fixes the error message > about not detecting the vmnet0 device. However, networking inside the VM > still doesn't work. Just for testing purposes I'm trying to get a FreeBSD > install disk to the point of starting a network install, but it won't > configure the card via DHCP and none of the lights on the hub are flashing to > indicate traffic. > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to compile the port and > my ports tree was last cvsup'd yesterday. > Check out this article: http://www.freebsdzine.org/200102/vmware2.php3 It's the best "how-to" I've seen so far. I've got Win98/Win2K running on -STABLE so far (even have sound :) I haven't tried the networking setup yet but will be doing so in a couple of days. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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