Hi All,
I hope someone can help me in debugging/pinpointing a problem I'm having etting ESX 4 working in VMWare Workstation 7.0 on Linux (on both Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, both exhibit same problem for me).
ESX 4.0 installs fine inside a VM, with the guest operating system set to "ESX Server 4.0", but after bootup, IP packets & DHCP do not work for the guest ESX 4 system. tcpdump inside the guest shows arp traffic and broadcast traffic for the entire LAN segment. ESXi 4 does work successfully, with DHCP/ICMP/vSwitch communications all working fine. I've tested this on
System config:
ESX 4 guest machine:
vswif0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:4E:6B:D1
inet addr:192.168.1.243 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:791139 (772.5 KiB) TX bytes: 8052 (7.8KiB)
# tcpdump -nni vswif0
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on vswif0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
22:14:22.850036 00:18:51:aa:19:22 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60: arp who-has 192.168.1.160 tell 192.168.1.43
22:14:23.951134 00:1c:10:5f:25:87 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60: arp who-has 192.168.1.160 tell 192.168.1.4
Host machine (Ubuntu 9.04):
You can see the ARP reply on the host machine, and the ICMP echo request, but
no reply. tcpdump inside the ESX4 machine only shows the arp request/reply but
no unicast ICMP echo request.
root@i7:~# arp -a -n | grep 192.168.1.243
? (192.168.1.243) at 00:50:56:4e:6b:d1 on eth0
11:49:37.376389 00:24:8c:56:d9:a0 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: arp who-has 192.168.1.243 tell 192.168.1.54
11:49:37.376604 00:50:56:4e:6b:d1 > 00:24:8c:56:d9:a0, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60: arp reply 192.168.1.243 is-at 00:50:56:4e:6b:d1
11:49:37.376617 00:24:8c:56:d9:a0 > 00:50:56:4e:6b:d1, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 98: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags |DF|, proto ICMP (1), length 84) 192.168.1.54 > 192.168.1.243: ICMP echo request, id 8551, seq 1, length 64
11:49:38.371782 00:24:8c:56:d9:a0 > 00:50:56:4e:6b:d1, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 98: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags |DF|, proto ICMP (1), length 84) 192.168.1.54 > 192.168.1.243: ICMP echo request, id 8551, seq 2, length 64
I have sat on this for a while hoping a kernel update or later ESX build might
fix my problem, but I've had no such luck. Last night I tested ESX4.0 on
Workstation 7 in Windows 7, and that worked successfully for guest<->lan
communications. Frustratingly, ESXi does work on this platform/configuration, but I want to evaluate some software that only works on ESX4.0.
I havn't been able to find anyone else with my symptoms, so
I'm hoping one of you clever experts can help me to debug this or provide a
suggestion on what could be wrong.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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