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VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking posted: Jan 29, 2008 10:57 AM

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neptune2000
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Dec 28, 2007
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.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.10 networking

1. Jan 29, 2008 10:58 AM in response to: neptune2000
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neptune2000
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The tile of this should be "VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.10 networking".

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

2. Jan 29, 2008 2:19 PM in response to: neptune2000
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Albertus
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Jun 22, 2007
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

3. Jan 29, 2008 2:14 PM in response to: Albertus
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neptune2000
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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 7.0 networking

4. Jan 29, 2008 2:26 PM in response to: Albertus
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Albertus
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Jun 22, 2007
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:

  1. Install XUbuntu 7.10
  2. Install VMWare Tools and restart
  3. 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

5. Jan 29, 2008 2:28 PM in response to: Albertus
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neptune2000
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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

6. Jan 29, 2008 2:30 PM in response to: Albertus
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neptune2000
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What and How you entered the DNS information?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1.1 breaks Ubuntu 7.0 networking

7. Jan 29, 2008 2:42 PM in response to: neptune2000
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Albertus
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Jun 22, 2007

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

8. Jan 29, 2008 2:45 PM in response to: Albertus
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neptune2000
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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

9. Jan 29, 2008 5:35 PM in response to: neptune2000
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WoodyZ
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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

10. Jan 29, 2008 6:55 PM in response to: WoodyZ
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neptune2000
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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

11. Jan 29, 2008 7:32 PM in response to: neptune2000
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WoodyZ
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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

12. Jan 29, 2008 10:47 PM in response to: Albertus
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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

13. Jan 30, 2008 7:30 AM in response to: neptune2000
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WoodyZ
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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

14. Jan 30, 2008 10:46 AM in response to: WoodyZ
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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.
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