[TriLUG] VMware networking Q

[Chris Merrill]

I have a similar setup.  Not being much of a Linux guru, I solved it
by setting up both of my ethernet interfaces (onboard/pci and pcmmcia)
as eth0.  I have two boot configurations (using different runlevels) -
each runs a script to create links for the the necessary config files 
(ifcfg-eth0 and modules.conf) depending on which boot config I choose.  
Using this method seems to make the difference transparent to VMWare, 
since it 'just works' - I didn't need to do any special config in VMWare 
or Win2k

The tech support guys told me that they didn't support wireless...
but that didn't make much sense to me....so went this route.

various disclaimers, YMMV,  etc. etc.

Chris


Rodent of Unusual Size said:
> The laptop is sometimes on a network through the onboard
> 100baseT eth0, and sometimes wireless through the ORiNOCO
> eth1.  And I'd like the W2K VM to be able to access the
> network regardless of which interface the host is using,
> and also be able to access the host's filesystem.
>
> There seem to be three options for VMs: bridged, NAT, and
> host-only.  And each VM may have up to three virtual interfaces.
> For access to the cloud I don't much care whether the VM does
> NAT through the host or not; nothing is going to be 'pushed'
> to it.  But what I need to do in the VMware config editor, and
> in the W2K setup, in order to get access to the cloud regardless
> of host interface, and also access to the host's filesystems,
> is rather (!) unclear.
>
> I would half-suspect setting up a NAT on eth0, a NAT on eth1,
> and a host-only network in the VMware config editor, but whether
> that's right and what steps to take in the W2K setup are eluding me..

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