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Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista posted: Apr 24, 2007 11:58 AM

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federico1978
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Apr 24, 2007
Dear all,
I am running on my machine ubuntu 7.04 as host operative system and I've installed the latest version of VMware server.
I created a virtual machine for Windows Vista.
I would like to be able to connect to the Internet using the virtual machine and/or the host os.
I tried to follow the procedures suggested by other posts and I tried to set in the network connection under "Virtual Machine settings" Bridged and NAT but still windows was not able to find any network connection. I am trying to use the ethernet 1 device.
Besides Vista says that no hardware network device is configured.

What should I do to sort this problem? Is there anything else I need to install except for VMware server?
I want to highlight that I don't have much knowledge of VMware and of networking. However I read the manual and I tried to follow step by step what was suggesting.

Thanks in advance for your attention

Federico

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

1. Apr 24, 2007 12:32 PM in response to: federico1978
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KevinG
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Jan 8, 2004
You will need to use the E1000 virtual network adapter in the virtual machine

Change or Add to the .vmx file to include the following line

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

2. Apr 24, 2007 3:25 PM in response to: federico1978
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federico1978
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Apr 24, 2007
Thanks a lot Kevin,

I added ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" to the .vmx file, but when I start Vista on the virtual machine, it doesn't have any network connection installed.
Is there anything I need to do in Vista in order to detect the virtual Device or it should be auto-detected? The strage thing is that it detects the virtual audio card and it prompt me for the installation of the software, but it doesn't say anything about the virtual ethernet card.

Should the guest give me internet access using both Bridged and NAT?

Any idea?

Thanks again

Federico

PS: this is an extract of my vmx file.

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:c2:a5:1b"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.vnet = "/dev/vmnet0"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"

Ethernet1.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet1.connectionType = "custom"
Ethernet1.vnet = "/dev/vmnet0"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:c2:a5:25"
ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

3. Apr 24, 2007 3:44 PM in response to: federico1978
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federico1978
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Apr 24, 2007
after reading the thread
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=70583
I could sort of understand that Vista will not install the driver for e1000 unless the installation of Vista is done with the virtual network e1000 in the vmx file.
Is this true? Should I re-install Vista on the virtual machine after editing the vmx file?

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

4. Apr 24, 2007 4:08 PM in response to: federico1978
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KevinG
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Jan 8, 2004
I Don't see a reason why Vista device manager should not be able to install the driver.

You can reinstall Vista with the e1000 in the .vmx file and this time it should install the driver for you.

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

5. Apr 25, 2007 10:11 AM in response to: federico1978
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federico1978
4 posts since
Apr 24, 2007
Thanks again Kevin,

I re-installed Windows Vista on the virtual machine after having configured the virtual network adapter in the vmx file adding the line you suggested.

Finally I can connect to the internet using the OS on the virtual machine.

Hence it seems that the virtual driver are not installed automatically when Vista is being installed but they need to be pre-configured.

Now I am going to try the audio devices... :-)

Thanks again,
Speak to you soon.

Federico

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

6. Jun 27, 2007 9:18 AM in response to: federico1978
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Yitzon
4 posts since
Jun 27, 2007
Hi,

I have a similar problem,

I am running on my machine Ubuntu 7.04 as host operative system and I've installed the latest version of VMware server.

I created a virtual machine for XP, another one for Debian.

The Virtual machines receive IP address from the DHCP server in my LAN correctly, they have connection without problem to and from any machine in my LAN (ssh, http, smb, etc).

My problem is: I can not connect to my guest by ssh from my host server and vice versa, I can not open the guest's web pages from my host server. Only the ping is working from guest to host server and host server to guest.

Thanks a lot.

Yitzon Belandria

PD: I don't know if I should open a new post.

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

7. Jun 27, 2007 6:22 AM in response to: Yitzon
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Yitzon
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Jun 27, 2007
Hi,

Even between the XP and the Ubuntu virtual machines I don't have any problem with connections.

Between any machine in my LAN and my host server I don't have any problem.

thanks

Re: Vmware Server network problems: host ubuntu 7.04, guest Vista

8. Jul 4, 2007 4:45 AM in response to: Yitzon
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wfischer1
5 posts since
Jul 4, 2007
I had the same problem and found the solution at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vmware-player/+bug/105697

When I disabled offload functions of my hosts network card, I was able to connect from the host system to the guest system via ssh.

I did the following
[root@host ~]# ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp segmentation offload: on
[root@host ~]# ethtool -K eth0 sg off rx off tx off tso off
[root@host ~]# ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: off
tx-checksumming: off
scatter-gather: off
tcp segmentation offload: off
[root@host ~]#

And then it worked...
btw: I have the following network card (lspci output):
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)

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