Hello VMware community,

I have a problem when installing VMware Server (1.0.4 and also tried beta 2) on a Dual-Xeon Server running SUSE Enterprise Server 10 Linux:

The perl-configration script says it will install vmnet0 for bridged networking on eth0 (also confirmed via editor-configuration-mode) but it doesn't. The result is the following:

At starting vmware service:

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Starting VMware virtual machines... done

The ifconfig -a one minute after service start:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:34:46:42
inet addr:141.28.126.107 Bcast:141.28.126.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fe34:4642/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:448 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:95873 (93.6 Kb) TX bytes:64787 (63.2 Kb)
Base address:0x2000 Memory:d8200000-d8220000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:34:46:43
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)
Base address:0x2020 Memory:d8220000-d8240000

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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1300 (1.2 Kb) TX bytes:1300 (1.2 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 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)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.170.1 Bcast:172.16.170.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.31.1 Bcast:172.16.31.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

The result:

So I can't use bridged-networking...has anyone any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks a lot,

Andreas