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vCenter Converter and v4.0.1 download?

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Hi All,

 

New to VMPlayer, but not new to computers in general, been programmiong for 30+ years.

 

I am retired and would like to play a little with the VMWare Player and move a networked older PC's win2000Pro SP4 to it with the Converter.

 

Reading the docs here the last version of vCenter Convert to Host win2000 appears to be v4.0.1. I cannot find a link where to download it. I found a link to 4.3, but it will not host w2k.

 

Questions:

1:

Where can I get a download of vCenter Converter 4.0.1?

 

2:

Will that run from within the current version 5.0.1 of Player or do I need a v4 version of Player?

If so, where can I get that from?

 

Thanks


windows 7 firewall vmware player.

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Hi,

 

I was wondering if there was a way to stop the network connection of a vm based on the network you're connected to. For instance if I have a certain application I'm using on a normal network I allow it to go through the firewall on windows 7. If I have a user going to say some public wifi, I don't want them using the vm there. So I'm hoping to be able to disable the vm firewall passthrough on public networks, but it seems as though the network devices they create are public.

 

So basically I want to disable the network connection of any vm using vmwareplayer when the user is connected to public wifi.

 

Any ideas or anything?

 

Thanks.

Access with another computer

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Hi,

In Windows 8, I have VMWare Player 5 installed with CentOS and a Rails server.

 

Here is the result of the ifconfig command:

 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:60:0F:AF 
          inet addr:192.168.118.136  Bcast:192.168.118.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe60:faf/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:530695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:626707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:202357267 (192.9 MiB)  TX bytes:479045323 (456.8 MiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2024
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:79511 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:79511 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:11402959 (10.8 MiB)  TX bytes:11402959 (10.8 MiB)

 

 

In Windows 8 (same PC), I can access it with 192.168.118.136:3000

 

But I'd like to access it from another computer in the same network too.

 

I ran the command line in windows 8 with admin rights to open the Virtual Network Editor: c:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player>rundll32.exe vmnetui.dll VMNetUI_ShowStandalone

 

I saved the following options (see image):

 

vmware.png

 

I still can't access 192.168.118.136:3000 from another computer.

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

Complete Noob question - Looking to connect thin clients to linux VMs

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Hi Guys and Gals,

 

Firstly, apologies if I've posted this is the wrong forum, it seemed to be the one best suited to what I'm after, but if not then just let me know and I'll post there.

 

I've got an ESX 4.0 server that is used to run VMs for training sessions. At present we're either using VM Player or VNC on desktops to access the VMs. The VMs are 90% Linux, but we also have some Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 machines. The desktops we're connecting from are old, slow, and put out a lot of heat. I used to maintain a training environment at another company where I used a Citrix server and connected thin client devices. As the majority or machines I'll be using here are Linux that puts pay to RDP, so I've been looking at using thin clients that connect direct to the VM on the ESX, essentially running a kind of thin client VM Player over the network. I've found thin clients that say they're 'VMWare ready', but have not been able to find any definitive information on how to set up the VMs, server-side software requirements (in case there's anything special that needs doing on the ESX, VM Viewer?) or recommendations for thin client hardware.

 

Any advice would be gratefully received, and if there's any more information you need then just ask.

 

Many thanks,

 

Spicer

Unable to connect to the Internet over open vpn

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Hello Community!

 

First off I have to say that I am a complete beginner concerning Virtual Machines and Ubuntu therefore I may not always understand what you tell me.

 

My Problem is that I cant connect to the Internet over Open VPN. It is working over LAN or WLAN tough. I use Windows 7 as the host and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as the guest in the VM. First I thought the problem were the missing VMWare Tools but even after manually installing them it is not working.

 

I hope you can help me, if you need any more Information please tell me.

XP guest won't access files on a bridged network from windows 7

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Hello,

The bridged networking seems to be working, but when I read a file from windows 7 host to Windows XP visual studio 2005

I find that there are some mysterious errors occurring, like failed I/O access.

Why is that?

Is that a known issue?

Thanks

Jack

Unity issue with the Alt Gr + combo

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Hi!. I'm using VMWare Viewer and i have a big problem. When i switch to unity mode i got a problem (that is very irritating for me): when i try to use the key combo alt gr + <key> it doesn't work. Now, i've searched a lot on the web and the cause is that the os recognize the alt gr key as left ctrl. Some guys on the web suggest to edit the /etc/vmware/config file by adding some lines which indicates some keycode for the keyboard map but this solution doesn't work for me. Is there someone that can help me?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Note: the version of vmware which i use is the last avaible for the download from the site.

 

Host os: Windows 7 Professional (x64)

Guest os: Ubuntu 11.04 (x86)

VMWare Tools causing freeze on Linux guest

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Hey All,

I have a very annoying issue with my VMWare Player setup.  My config is:

 

Windows 7 64-bit host running VMWare Player 5.0.1 build-894247

     4 CPUs

     8G of RAM

     256G disk

 

Centos 6.3 guest with VMWare Tools 9.2.2 build-893683

     2 CPUs

     2G of RAM

     40GB disk

 

 

When VMWare Tools is installed on the guest, and I am logged into a Gnome environment, double clicking files on my desktop (.jpg, .txt and such) to open them will cause a freeze.  During this freeze I notice the following:

 

The CPU goes to 100% on vmplayer.exe on the host

The CPU goes to 100% on vmware-vmx.exe on the host

Trying to click on the VM's window while in this frozen state will bring up the Windows dialog stating "VMWare Player is not responding"

 

If I un-install VMWare tools, this problem immediately stops.  Reinstalling causes it to return.

 

What I have tried already (with no success):

1. Increasing RAM of guest up to 4G (shouldn't be necessary as I have almost no services running on the Centos 6.3 guest)

2. Disabling all optional features in the VMWare Tools installer (printer, shared disk, drag n' drop)

3. Re-installing VMWare Player

 

Other experiments:

1.  I installed VMWare Workstation and booted the same Centos 6.3 image.  It had the same freezing behavior

 

2.  I created a new Centos 6.3 image and ran it on the same VMWare Player host.  I was unable to get this guest to freeze in the same manner.

 

Any ideas on what else I can turn off in VMWare tools?  I really only want it installed so that I can cut/paste between the guest and host.

 

Thanks

Joe


Turnning off snapshots VMware Player

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Apologies for what may be a really stupid question.

 

I've just installed Player on my wife's PC under Ubuntu and the Windows guest appears to be generating rolling snapshots (and generating crippling amounts of IO in the process) so I would like to turn shapshots off.

 

(I didn't think Player generated snapshots - and it doesn't on my PC)

 

I don't recall seeing any option in the VM setup. but can I diable them now?

 

I have no evidence that snapshots are being created other than this output from iotop (also attached)...

Screenshot from 2013-01-16 12:57:43.png   

 

Many thanks

 

Simon

VMPlayer: WinXP 32bit RealTek PCIe GBE drivers help

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Hi -

 

I was hoping maybe someone was able to run the correct drivers for a win xp 32bit realtek pcie gbe network controller on a virtual machine?  I downloaded all the INF files from realtek, but winxp does not detect the drivers in the virtual machine.

 

I have VMPlayer running on a win7 64bit.

 

The OS on the local disk has rt64win7.sys, rtncprop64.dll, and rtnuninst64.dll running for drivers.

 

I'd appreciate any help.

 

Thanks

Stephen

 

VMX Config

-----

.encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "9"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
memsize = "512"
mem.hotadd = "TRUE"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "WinXP2.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "D:\realtek.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = ""
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "thinprint"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
hpet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.vbluetooth.startConnected = "TRUE"
displayName = "WinXP2"
guestOS = "windows7"
nvram = "WinXP2.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "FALSE"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"
extendedConfigFile = "WinXP2.vmxf"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:1f:3b:77"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
vmci0.id = "-585155721"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d e5 65 91 05 b7 53-60 df 48 27 dd 1f 3b 77"
uuid.bios = "56 4d e5 65 91 05 b7 53-60 df 48 27 dd 1f 3b 77"
cleanShutdown = "TRUE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
ide0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.sasWWID = "50 05 05 65 91 05 b7 50"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
softPowerOff = "TRUE"
usb:1.speed = "2"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"
usb:1.port = "1"
usb:1.parent = "-1"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
bios.bootDelay = "10000"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
usb:0.present = "TRUE"
usb:0.deviceType = "hid"
usb:0.port = "0"
usb:0.parent = "-1"

Network card problem

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Hi,

 

 

I've installed Windows 7 beta 1 on VMWare Player. My host is Windows XP Pro sp3.

 

 

Regardless of how I set the network card (Bridged, Host only, NAT  ) for my guest machine (WINDOWS 7) in VMWare Player, I have no network card in the guest, like if there isn't any hardware.

 

 

The network card has a yellow exclamation mark in the hardware manager. It seems it hasn't the right driver.

 

 

My VMWare Player version is: 2.5.0 build-118166

 

 

My ipconfig is:

 

 

Configurazione IP di Windows

 

        Nome host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : myPc

        Suffisso DNS primario  . . . . . . .  :

        Tipo nodo . . . . . . . . .  : Sconosciuto

        Routing IP abilitato. . . . . . . . . : No

        Proxy WINS abilitato . . . . . . . .  : No

 

Scheda Ethernet VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

 

        Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione:

        Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8

        Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08

        DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : No

        Indirizzo IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.40.1

        Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . :

 

Scheda Ethernet VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

 

        Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione:

        Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1

        Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01

        DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : No

        Indirizzo IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.206.1

        Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . :

 

Scheda Ethernet Hamachi:

 

        Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione:

        Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hamachi Network Interface

        Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 7A-79-05-3E-E6-6A

        DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : Sì

        Configurazione automatica abilitata . : No

        Indirizzo IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 5.62.230.106

        Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0

        Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . :

        Server DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 5.0.0.1

        Lease ottenuto. . . . . . . . . . . . : sabato 28 febbraio 2009 0.40.47

        Scadenza lease . . . . . . . . . . .  : sabato 28 febbraio 2009 0.45.02

 

Scheda Ethernet Connessione alla rete locale (LAN):

 

        Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione:

        Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

        Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-17-31-8D-91-74

        DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : No

        Indirizzo IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.10

        Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.253

        Server DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . .  : 192.168.1.253

 

 

 

 

 

thank you.

 

 

Bye

 

 

64Bit VMs & Intel E6400 Core 2 Duo

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Hi,

 

I have a machine which has the Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor which I know supports VT-X.

 

I  am running Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit and have VMware PLayer installed. I  have many 64Bit VM's, mainly linux (Suse & Fedora) which work  perfectly on a Dell Laptop with an i5 processor, however when I run them  on the E6400 processor I get errors in regards to 64Bit support and  LongMode.

 

I checked that this processor supports VT-X so am unsure why this does not work?

I also checked with the 64Bit processor tool and that confirms that the processor is capable of running 64Bit hosts so unsure what the problem is.

 

There are no settings with the firmware that control VT-X so I am a little stuck with regards to this.

 

Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave

Help needed: how to install VMware tools on Fedora-18-x86_64?

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Hello,
Quick questions/use case to VMware Player community?
I was able to download Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso (4.3 GB). It took me 3.5 hours to download it from Fedora mirror. Performed checking with sha256sum.exe. Then, I customized VMware Player 5.0.1 and configured VM Guest with proper parameters, Where image is located at C:\Users\nobody\Downloads\Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso
Then, upon first start I installed/configured KDE (my preferred GFX environment) and all the R&D packages. Upon subsequent runs, I tried to install VMware Tools. Namely, when I go to player → Manage → install VMware tools it does NOT work/perform for me.
Questions:
[1] What should I do to successfully install VMware tools?
As I recall, on linux, a GUI request to install vmware tools results in a disk being mounted and if you are lucky a tar file being copied to your desktop. Then you must manually untar & install. I've not tried Fedora18 yet though.
[2] I see that mounting is failing. Should I unmount CD/DVD and configure CD?DVD differently?
[3] in which directory should .tar file be copied? ~/Downloads?
[4] Does VMware 5.0.1 fully support Fedora 18 Final Release?
[5] Do yoy know how I can do/configure VMware tools finding/loading .tar file from vmware.com specific location and bringing it inside Fedora 18 Guest using UCB Mass Storage device? Where I can find this .tar file independently and take care of this myself?
Thank you,
_nobody_

All the vmware player freezes

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Hi,

 

I'm running vmwplayer in Windows 7, virtualizing a Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and it goes pretty good, except, some times that the whole virtual machine freezes, the screen goes black and I can't do anything, the icons that shows if it is doing something (like accesing to disk and that kind of stuff) do nothing, like the machine is stopped.

 

Version of Vmware Player: 5.0.1 build-894247

The machine has enough disk and enough Ram to execute.

 

If you need more info just ask,

Some solution?

 

Thanks a lot.

vmware kernel module updater can't compile after upgraded to kernel-3.7.2 (Fedora 18)

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Environments:

OS: Fedora 18 x86_64

Kernel and kernel headers: 3.7.2-201.fc18

VMware Player: VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.x86_64.bundle

 

vmware-modconfig log:

2013-01-18T14:13:00.229+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Validating path "/lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include" for kernel release "3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.229+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Failed to find /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h
2013-01-18T14:13:00.229+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Failed version test: /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h not found.
2013-01-18T14:13:00.329+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Kernel header path retrieved from FileEntry: 
2013-01-18T14:13:00.329+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Update kernel header path to 
2013-01-18T14:13:00.329+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Validating path "" for kernel release "3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.329+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Failed to find /linux/version.h
2013-01-18T14:13:00.329+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Failed version test: /linux/version.h not found.
2013-01-18T14:13:00.329+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Kernel header path  is invalid.
2013-01-18T14:13:00.330+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Found compiler at "/usr/bin/gcc"
2013-01-18T14:13:00.335+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Got gcc version "4.7.2".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.335+08:00| vthread-3| I120: The GCC version matches the kernel GCC minor version like a glove.
2013-01-18T14:13:00.335+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Using user supplied compiler "/usr/bin/gcc".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.340+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Got gcc version "4.7.2".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.340+08:00| vthread-3| I120: The GCC version matches the kernel GCC minor version like a glove.
2013-01-18T14:13:00.345+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel "3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.345+08:00| vthread-3| I120: No matching PBM set was found for kernel "3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.345+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Validating path "" for kernel release "3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64".
2013-01-18T14:13:00.345+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Failed to find /linux/version.h
2013-01-18T14:13:00.345+08:00| vthread-3| I120: Failed version test: /linux/version.h not found.

Using W7 Firewall to Block Traffic

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Can someone tell me what application/ports I need to block to not allow vmware player to access the network through windows 7? I see the Authd application in my firewall settings, but when set to block it on all networks, it still allows my vm to access the network. Same goes for when I block the VMware Player application itself.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

Ubuntu initramfs unable to find a medium containing a live file system

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I am running the latest VMware Player on a windows 8 host pc trying to install the Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 in a virtual machine.

 

I am getting the following message during the Ubuntu installer boot:

 

"(initramfs) unable to find a medium containing a live file system" - then the boot just hangs there.

 

This is a brand new Lenovo W530 system - i7 quad core with 8gb of memory and 512gb of disk space.

 

I have been into the BIOS and turned on virtualization and disabled Execution Protection as advised by the vmware software.

 

The Ubuntu ISO image appears to be good as well.

 

Anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem could be?

VMWare is a clownish company, and Player has become a joke

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As a rule, I will virtually never write a deliberately flaming title.  But really, what I write is the truth.  I have been unable to update VMWare Tools for Windows for months now.  I just tried to update (as I was pestered) VMWare Player to a new version, and that too failed.  Server issues?

 

Nor is it obvious how to download the needed version of VMware tools separately and apply the update.

 

I will now look for a replacement to VMWare player.  I was actually going to use the Workstation a year or so ago, but the quality fo support for THAT was miserable.

 

Note that I have used VMWare products for many years.  I know what the company used to be.  Nowadays, the only thing this company seems to care about is major institutional users.

 

Finally--and I don't care if I have riled any of you--I have reported my inability to update vmware tools here before.  Nobody bothered to help.

Host cant ping guest and vice versa

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Hi,

 

I have 2 physical machines on my network:

WH - Windows host, IP: 192.168.85.104

L - Linux box, IP: 192.168.85.48

 

I created 2 Windows VM's on WH and put them into bridge mode:

WGA - Windows Guest A, IP: 192.168.85.119

WGB - Windows Guest B, IP: 192.168.85.121

 

All firewalls are down, internet works on all machines.

L can ping all other machines and every machine can ping L.

WGA can ping WGB and vice versa.

 

The problem is here:

WH cannot ping (or access in any other way over network) neither WGA nor WGB.

WGA and WGB cannot oping WH.

 

Seems really strange, any ideas?

 

I'm using VMWare Player 4.0.3 build-703057

VMWare Freezes On Reboot

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All,

 

I have installed Windows XP SP3 in my VMWare virtual enviroment and whenever I reboot it, it gets stuck on the front VMWare POST screen where it says F2 to enter setup and F12 to network boot.

 

I really need to stop this happening and im running out of ideas.

 

Kind Regards

 

R

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