By the config script, do you mean the VMware Tools? (... Scurries off to try and answer the question by doing it.) On 4/27/07, Daniel Parraz wrote: > Correct - I have had this happen on a couple of occasions, when I have to > shutdown the host system hard due to host software lockup, not associated > with VMware. > > Re-running the config script will not blow out your config, as it asks if > you want to keep it the same for networking, and wha-la - your VM hosts will > be talking to the network again. I have not done any further research to see > if this is a defect in VMware Server, or if it's host dependent(*nix, osx, > win). If you find there is a defect, please let us know as well. > > Hope this helped. > > Thanks > > Daniel Parraz > > > Bryan O'Neal wrote: > This happens to me from time to time on my PC's. I just rerun the > configuration script and it has always worked. Usually some upgrade or > configuration change on the host OS is the culprit though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On > Behalf Of Lynn > David Newton > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:16 AM > To: PLUG > Subject: virtual machines not on the net > > > I'm sure there are some VMware experts out there. > > I'm running VMware Fusion Beta on my Macbook Pro. I > have three virtual machines: Ubuntu 7.04, openSUSE > 10.2, and Windows XP, all working fine, or they were. > > Yesterday something the external drive on my iMac > (which mostly sits idle) briefly went south for some > unknown reason. I had stuff shared off that system, > e.g., my iTunes library and the main disk drive, so > this caused correspondingly bogus behavior on my MBP, > noticed at first within two of my virtual machines. > > Eventually the only thing I could do was to kill VMware > from a command line, since it became inoperable. Things > remained sluggish until I finally realized that the > real culprit was (evidently) the iMac, which I was only > able to recover by pulling the plug out of the socket. > > After that, I brought up all three virtual machines two > or three times, but have been unable to get a network > connection on any of them. > > On one VM (Ubuntu), ifup keeps fetching me addresses > like 169.254.2.158 rather than a 192.168.N.N. On the > SUSE VM it tells me that DHCP is running in the > background looking for leases, but never finds one. > > Windows is no better, but I know almost nothing about > Windows or how to fix it. In any case, I don't believe > that the VMs themselves are the problem, but that > VMware itself is confused. I've tinkered with the > Settings to no avail. > > Any ideas where to go from here? All of my machines are > useless to me in that condition. My real machines are > all fine. > > -- > Lynn David Newton > Phoenix, AZ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________ > Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? > Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Lynn David Newton Phoenix, AZ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss