From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Mar 31 9:45:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2E437B52C for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA70889; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38E4E417.F7B68784@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:44:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0325 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Akinori -Aki- MUSHA , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: networking vmware References: <20000331071416.BBCCA1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Wemm wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > > Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > At 31 Mar 2000 04:01:58 +0200, > > > Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > > > How am I supposed to get vmware to network? > > > > > > Currently only "host-only" networking is supported. > > > > What does this mean exactly? If I'm running freebsd, and running window > s > > in vmware, will the windows apps have access to the network? > > Well, the "contained" environment only has direct access to the host.. > However, the host can route or bridge or nat via other methods... > > If you give the vmnet interface a valid routable address you can set your > freebsd host to do ipforwarding and set up your routes and it'll work as > though it was a small ethernet with a real box on the other end instead of > an emulated system. OK, that's good news. I'm already doing natd at home so I should be able to set that up. Domo arigato to MUSHA-san for his response as well. Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message