vmplayer doesn't recognize the network cards configured by VMware workstation?

[dk2010]

I have a RHEL5.5 guest system created by workstation. The network functions works well when I open that guest system in VMware Workstation.

But when I open that VM with VMplayer, the network card seems stop working: I cannot access network from this guest VM.

The VM is stayed at the same location, I don't move it or copy it.

I am wondering why the network feature works for Workstation, but not player. Is the vmplayer just disables the network feature? or I misused the vmplayer?

Anybody has similar experience on this ?

Thanks!

[continuum]

VMplayer 3.* is buggy and does not install vmnetcfg - so you can not configure the devices correctly.

Read

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1545346#1545346




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[dk2010]

Thanks for the info!

I read the link you posted, the referred vmware-netcfg tool is for linux host.

I am in a situation of using WindowsXP as the host, is there similar tool I can use to configure network card for VM from Windows host?

[continuum]

sorry - I thought you used Linux as host - anyway - same applies to the Windows-version.

you must run the setup again with the parameter to expand - then you find the vmnetcfg.exe in a network.cab file

we discussed this a few times recently




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[dk2010]

I find vmnetcfg.exe from the package, and I can run it directly in a standalone mode. But the problem is how to invoke it from vmplayer.

Say for "My-VM" virtual machine, by using workstation, in "Virtual Machine Settings..."--->"network connection"area, I was able to set network adaptor as "bridged"/"NAT"/"HOST only" or "Custom". But if I use vmplayer, there is no "Custom" option available.I cannot set "network connection" for my virtual machine ("My-VM").

My question becomes: if I run vmnetcfg.exe from WindowsXP to customize, saying bridge VMnet2 to a phyisical NIC, how to configure the network adaptor for My-VM to this customized VMnet2?

Thx!

[continuum]

Hi

you need to edit the vmx file yourself - such as

ethernet0.present= "true"

ethernet0.startConnected = "true"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

ethernet0.connectionType = "custom"

ethernet0.vnet = "vmnet2"

see my site for more info

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-network.html




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