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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:55:07 +1000
From:      Christopher Smith <drsmithy@optushome.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   VMWare and bridging
Message-ID:  <01030411550702.01924@area51.thehouse>

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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.


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