Since upgrade to 6.5 from 6.0.5, DHCP on guest fails every 5-6 hours.
The guest is XP SP3, connected in NAT mode; the VM was created under v 6.0.4, and later hardware and tools upgraded to 6.5.
When this occurs, tcp/ip connectivity on guest is temporarily lost because it loses DHCP address (see below).
Shortly after this, the guest manages to renew the address (or anyway, it renews IP connectivity).
This is new problem for me with 6.5; it never occured with 6.0.x.
THough I had a different problem in 6.0.x with crashing VMNAT service; this does not occur in 6.5.
The following are eventlog messages on guest (always occur in pairs):
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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Dhcp
Event ID: 1003
Description:
Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 000C29727E81. The following error occurred:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.
Data:
0000: 79 00 00 00 y...
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Dhcp
Event ID: 1000
Description:
Your computer has lost the lease to its IP address 192.168.181.128 on the Network Card with network address 000C29727E81.
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The following are eventlog messages on Host (XP SP3); logged every time when guest disconnects:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: VMnetDHCP
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Description:
dispatch: Timeout waiting for input data
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Regards,
- PA
