VMware Communities: Message List - VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:30:00 GMT

WoodyZ wrote:
FWIW all I had to do was add "ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"" to the .vmx file and even with roaming enabled it worked. Did not have to use the ifconfig command.

FABULOUS FIX! Roaming works AND the network icon on the top right shows "Wired Network" with no warning. Also, I do not get huge the number of the RX errors that I was getting in the previous configuration. ifconfig shows zero RX errors.

marco@ubuntu-desktop:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:72:E2:EC
inet addr:192.168.75.130 Bcast:192.168.75.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe72:e2ec/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:146255 (142.8 KB) TX bytes:32665 (31.8 KB)
Base address:0x2040 Memory:e8920000-e8940000

Now if someone could tell me the fix to get back "sound" (which was working in Fusion 1.10 and is broken in 1.1.1) I would be absolutely ecstatic.

Thanks, WoodyZ.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

WoodyZ — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:07:11 GMT

FWIW all I had to do was add "ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"" to the .vmx file and even with roaming enabled it worked. Did not have to use the ifconfig command.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:55:16 GMT

Nice guide. Found the file. Thanks.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

etung — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:38:48 GMT

Where is that VM's .vmx configuration file supposed to be located?

See A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:26:29 GMT

Where is that VM's .vmx configuration file supposed to be located?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

WoodyZ — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:20:18 GMT

In a Terminal $ sudo ifconfig eth0 up

Add the following line to the VM's .vmx configuration file.

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:52:45 GMT

magi wrote:
It turns out this is a bug with vmxnet not reporting link status correctly.

We were thrown off a bit by the reports that this broke in Fusion 1.1.1, because it should have been no different in 1.1.0.

Apparently it is.

You can:

ignore the report from the network status icon, if other things are working fine (I think this will work if you don't use DHCP, but dhclient will also be unhappy)

actually, as I mentioned before, it works fine if you use DHCP or set a static address.

- manually mark eth0 as up

How do I do that?

- use e1000 instead of vmxnet

how do I do that?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

magi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:51:24 GMT

It turns out this is a bug with vmxnet not reporting link status correctly.

We were thrown off a bit by the reports that this broke in Fusion 1.1.1, because it should have been no different in 1.1.0.

You can:

ignore the report from the network status icon, if other things are working fine (I think this will work if you don't use DHCP, but dhclient will also be unhappy)
manually mark eth0 as up
use e1000 instead of vmxnet

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:45:26 GMT

Here are the nitty gritty details:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/118348?tstart=0

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:41:27 GMT

Yep, that did it for DHCP. Quoting you link from technogeezer:

"Try configuring your network manually rather than relying on Network Manager in its default roaming settings. Open the Network Manager, and select the "Wired Connection". Click on the "Properties button, which brings up the properties. Uncheck the "Enable Roaming Mode" button, and set "Configuration" to "Automatic Configuration (DHCP). Hit the "OK" button and you will be returned to the "Properties" screen. Make sure the box next to the "Wired Connection" is a check and not a dash."

That worked for me (so now I moved from using the "static address kludge" to DHCP), and I got similar values for ifconfig:

marcopapa@ubuntu-desktop:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:72:E2:EC
inet addr:192.168.75.130 Bcast:192.168.75.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe72:e2ec/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:59 errors:48 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:38059 (37.1 KB) TX bytes:12695 (12.3 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2024

In the thread you refer to, the other way to "re-enable" the net card was this:

"It seems that after disabling roaming some people, including myself, have to run these commands to get networking back up and running:
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient

(end of quote)

I didn't have to do that, as my previous setting it to "static address" apparently "revived" eth0. It seems that installing VMTools put the eth0 card in "roaming mode" which breaks it and makes it not visible. See this link for the details:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/153635/comments/16

The assumption is that this bug was also present in Fusion 1.1, and there are a number of threads related to this in the Ubuntu forums.

Everything is good. Thanks.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

etung — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:16:59 GMT

I wonder if what you're seeing is general Ubuntu 7.10 networking trouble, and not Fusion related - see for example Re: No Network after installing VMware Tools in Kubuntu 7.10 Guest and Ubuntu 7.10/7.04: "No network devices have been found.", but I have network. How to fix?.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:46:00 GMT

Thanks! That worked!

This is what I did. I run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (which is a supported system) and copied the values that it gets using DHCP:

eth0 IP: 192.168.75.129
mask: 255.255.25.0
hostname: localhost.localdomain
Primary DNS: 192.168.75.2
DNS searchpath: localdomain
Gateway: 192.168.75.2

(BTW, these numbers apparently have NOTHING to do with my actual Apple Extreme router DHCP range, whose IP ranges are 10.0.1.0 - 10.0.1.255)

I entered the above values in the manual network setup, and boom! the network is up. This is what I get from 'ifconfig':

marco@ubuntu-desktop:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:72:E2:EC
inet addr:192.168.75.129 Bcast:192.168.75.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe72:e2ec/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:301 errors:254 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:266001 (259.7 KB) TX bytes:40915 (39.9 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2024

Does this seems reasonable? I works.

The ubuntu network icon in the top right still says "no connection", but the connection works.

Thanks a million, WoodyZ.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

WoodyZ — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:30:37 GMT

neptune2000 wrote:I guess my bug s different than yours. Ifconfig returns this:

eth0 does NOT have a "inet addr" value associated to it before or after adding the DNS ip of my router (Apple extreme Base Station).

Have to tried assigning it a IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway Addresses as well as the DNS Servers?

While I know it's a pain to have to do you should be able to assign the relevant Network TCP/IP Information to allow it to communicate with the Router. Just choose an IP Address that is outside the scope of the DHCP Server Address Pool. Example, Say the Gateway Address is 192.168.1.1 and the DHCP Server Scope is from .100 on the last octet to .149, just set the NIC's IP Address to 192.168.1.99 or lower or 192.168.1.150 or higher. Subnet Mask is most likely 255.255.255.0 and add the reported DNS Servers. Do not use .1 or .255 for the last octet of the NIC's IP Address.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:47:57 GMT

I guess my bug s different than yours. Ifconfig returns this:

marco@ubuntu-desktop:/tmp$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:72:E2:EC
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2024

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

marco@ubuntu-desktop:/tmp$

eth0 does NOT have a "inet addr" value associated to it before or after adding the DNS ip of my router (Apple extreme Base Station).

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

WoodyZ — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:32:34 GMT

neptune2000 wrote:Well, then why even add to the release notes specifics about a fix for Ubuntu 7.10? Fixing it in one place and braking in another that worked before is not really good policy. It would have been just better if you'd left it alone.

I beleive they fixed an issue that showed up in Linux VMware Tools that in the last release one member of the comunity found and posted how to manually edit the config file for and another wrote a patch to make it easy to fix for the previous release however I doubt they intentionally set out to break it or anything for that matter! At least there is a work-a-round so stop whining and manually set the information or don't use it! Either way Unbuntu 7.10 is not officially supported yet and therefore you have no rights to gripe!

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:55:53 GMT

Well, then why even add to the release notes specifics about a fix for Ubuntu 7.10? Fixing it in one place and braking in another that worked before is not really good policy. It would have been just better if you'd left it alone.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

WoodyZ — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:35:30 GMT

Ubuntu 7.10 isn't a supported Guest OS and that fact that it worked in a previous release was nice but officially is wasn't and still is not supported. If having to manually configure the network adapter is all that has to be done to get it to work untill it's official supported then that's not such a bad thing to have to do!

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:45:22 GMT

That's the point. They HAVE BROKEN DHCP! I don't want to put in the stuff "manually"s. Proper DHCP behavior should be totally transparent.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

Albertus — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:42:16 GMT

Go to Network Settings (click on network icon left to the clock)

Note: I have manual settings here, not DHCP.

You'll see 4 tabs labeled Connections, General, DNS & Hosts.

Just click on DNS and enter your DNS ip. (In my personal case, my ADSL router's ip)

If you have DHCP enabled, try opening first a Terminal(Applications/Accessories/Terminal) and write: 'ifconfig' (without the quotes).

Look for first entry named eth0. On the second line you must have 'inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' where xxx must be a valid ip number.

Then try pinging some other computer on your network.

Hope this helps

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:30:15 GMT

What and How you entered the DNS information?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:28:53 GMT

I never had to enter DNS information before (I mean when I installed Ubuntu with VMWare Fusion 1.1).

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

Albertus — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:26:10 GMT

Albertus wrote:Same thing just happened to me. XP/CentOS 5 work fine. XUbuntu 7.10: no networking at all.

I've reinstalled XUbuntu 7.10 from scratch, installed VMWare Tools and still no network access.

Any ideas?

It's me again: now it works (2nd attempt)

What I've done:

Install XUbuntu 7.10
Install VMWare Tools and restart
DNS information (which I entered before) wasn't there (??). I've reentered it and now I have network access again.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

Albertus — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:06:30 GMT

Same thing just happened to me. XP/CentOS 5 work fine. XUbuntu 7.10: no networking at all.

I've reinstalled XUbuntu 7.10 from scratch, installed VMWare Tools and still no network access.

Any ideas?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:14:18 GMT

What an upgrade. Ubuntu 7.10 was not supported in 1.1, but actually WORKED. VMware 1.1.1 is supposed to fix a bug with Ubuntu 7.10, while instead it makes it now an unusable system. Not good.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.10 networking

neptune2000 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:58:51 GMT

The tile of this should be "VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.10 networking".

VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

neptune2000 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:57:42 GMT

I upgraded to 1.1.1, and reinstalled / updated the tools on three guest systems. Here are my exeriences:

1. Windows XP Home Edition: all is good. Everything still works.

2. Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition 5 Desktop: All is well, after re-running the VMware Tools tarball install.

3. Ubuntu 7.10: this system worked just fine for me in 1.1. After the update and re-running the VMware Tools install, I have no network. Pretty much the system is not usable. I tried to put the net in both Bridge or NAT mode. No difference: Ubuntu 7.10 sees no network hardware available.