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Two Bridged Network interfaces posted: Nov 6, 2009 3:19 AM

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DirkVDB
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Nov 6, 2009

Hi,

I'm running VMWare Player 3.0.0 build-203739 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on a machine that has 2 physical network interfaces (eth0, eth1)

I want to have bridged access to these interfaces in my virtual machines, but when I create two virtual adapters they both get an ip from the eth0 interface.

How do I map the second virtual interface to eth1?

/etc/vmware/networks looks like this:

answer VNET_0_INTERFACE eth0

answer VNET_1_INTERFACE eth1

Thanks

Tags: linux, networking, bridged

Re: Two Bridged Network interfaces

1. Nov 10, 2009 2:36 PM in response to: DirkVDB
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ckousoulis
172 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
Can you post your .vmx config file for the virtual machine with the two virtual NICs?
Since you didn't mention any VM configuration, I would first suggest that you check VM Settings in the UI. For the two virtual NIC devices, there is a UI control to select which virtual network the virtual adapter should use. You will want to set each NIC to use a virtual network that is bridged to a specific host adapter (as opposed to just auto-bridged). Modifying virtual network configuration can be done with the vmnetcfg UI.

Sorry for the brevidy; I can provide more details if needed.

Thanks.

Re: Two Bridged Network interfaces

2. Nov 12, 2009 12:40 AM in response to: ckousoulis
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DirkVDB
3 posts since
Nov 6, 2009

My VMX looks like this:

.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
numvcpus = "2"
maxvcpus = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "512"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Ubuntu.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.fileType = "device"
floppy0.fileName = ""
floppy0.clientDevice = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
mks.enable3d = "FALSE"
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"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
displayName = "Ubuntu"
guestOS = "ubuntu"
nvram = "Ubuntu.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "FALSE"
extendedConfigFile = "Ubuntu.vmxf"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:dc:62:52"
uuid.location = "56 4d 43 b6 fe 28 bf bc-c1 c8 f9 ec 4f dc 62 52"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 43 b6 fe 28 bf bc-c1 c8 f9 ec 4f dc 62 52"
cleanShutdown = "TRUE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
scsi0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "16777216"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "1339843154"
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
checkpoint.vmState = "Ubuntu.vmss"
ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
debugStub.linuxOffsets = "0x0,0xffffffff,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0"
ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "37"
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:dc:62:5c"
ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"
ethernet1.startConnected = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
unity.wasCapable = "TRUE"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
ide0:0.present = "FALSE"

In my UI (VMPLayer 3.0) there is no option to select which virtual interface the virtual adapters should choose.

Thanks

Re: Two Bridged Network interfaces

3. Nov 12, 2009 11:02 AM in response to: DirkVDB
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continuum
12,639 posts since
Dec 18, 2003
your vmx-file is completely mis-configured - don't know why ???

anyway - remove move all ethernet entries and replace them with this ones

ethernet0.present= "true"
ethernet0.startConnected = "true"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.connectionType = "custom"
ethernet0.vnet = "vmnet0"

ethernet1.present= "true"
ethernet1.startConnected = "true"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet1.connectionType = "custom"
ethernet1.vnet = "vmnet2"

also do not assign vmnet1 to a physical nic - it should be left to the default which is hostonly
so change

answer VNET_1_INTERFACE eth1

to

answer VNET_2_INTERFACE eth1

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Re: Two Bridged Network interfaces

4. Nov 13, 2009 12:53 AM in response to: continuum
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DirkVDB
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Nov 6, 2009

I made the changes you proposed (Don't know why the file was so messed up, I only used the gui to change things) The first virtual network now works but the second one can't be connected.

I think this is because there is no vmnet2 running (I did restart the vmware service)

sudo vmware-networks --status
Bridge networking on vmnet0 is running
Network detection service is not running
All the services configured on all the networks are running

After adding

add_bridge_mapping eth0 0
add_bridge_mapping eth1 2

to /etc/vmware/networks things are running ok.

Thanks a lot for your help!

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