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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: vmware on fedora 7 (Jason Hayes)
  2. Re: vmware on fedora 7 ('josh coffman')

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:59:57 -0700
From: Jason Hayes <jason@jasonhayes.org>
Subject: Re: vmware on fedora 7
To: 'josh coffman' < joshcoffman@gmail.com>,     Main PLUG discussion list
       <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Message-ID: < 200708230659.57745.jason@jasonhayes.org>
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Josh:

I'm not sure about the screen resolution. My screen settings have just always
cooperated, so I haven't had to fiddle with them.

I have had issues with getting my network connections to work in the past
though (both wired and wireless).

I'm real busy with work projects right now, so I don't have a lot of time to
go into details. However, the times that I did have trouble, I found out that
it had to do with setting the vmnet1 and vmnet8 protocols to "static" instead
of "none", or "dhcp".

I blogged about my Vmware issues - see http://www.jasonhayes.org/?p=1898 and
http://www.jasonhayes.org/?p=2245 (I have links in these posts to others who
had dealt with networking issues as well).

Since you're using fedora 7, your networking shouldn't be that much different
(I think) than it would be on my Mandriva system. (Mandriva was originally
based on Red Hat.)

HTH - if not try Googling around about the static IP thing to see if you can
dig up anything else.

Jason Hayes

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 9:19:06 am 'josh coffman' wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I've got a couple issues that I'm working on with vmware server on fedora
> 7. First, I'm not tied to server if using the player will solve things.
>
>   Note: guest OS is WinXP; SELinux is off.
>
>   First problem is the networking. My host machine is on wireless. I seem
> to have trouble setting vmware and the guest OS to use wlan0. It seem to
> get the settings right, but the guest OS won't get a connection. I can set
> it to use a local NAT and get internet connection, but then I can't connect
> to the guest Os remotely. ..which leads to the second problem...
>
>   Another problem is running full screen. I can run fullscreen if the guest
> is set to a much smaller resolution. If I set the winXP to a normal Res
> like 1280 or 1440, then I get some error with X not supporting the vid mode
> when I switch to fullsreen in the vmware server console. Also, the machine
> tab and status bar are always present.. thought there was a way to hide
> those.
>
>   I'm trying to set up a dev environment for my windows work and still have
> linux as my host OS. Running fullscreen is important to me. If I can get
> the networking right, I think I could just Remote Desktop to the guest OS
> and work just fine.
>
>   My preferred solution is to get the guest OS to use wlan0 correctly and
> get an IP on my lan. Then I could remote desktop WinXP and work that way.
>
>   My secondary choice is to get fullscreen working on the vmware console so
> that I'm running full resolution.
>
>   My last choice is to put XP back on the desktop and dual boot it. I have
> to have a dev environment.
>
>   So, how do I set up vmware to use wlan0 for guest OS networking? How can
> I get vmware to run fullscreen with the guest OS resolution at the same
> level as the host?
>
> -j
>
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:49:01 CDT
From: 'josh coffman' < joshcoffman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: vmware on fedora 7
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Ahh, interesting. Honestly, I didn't think of trying a static ip setting.
Does the nic in the guest OS (XP) then need to be set to static or does it just work?

I did a bit more googling, and found a couple unsubstantiated claims. First, ndiswrapper might not allow bridging. Second, the vmware-any-any update might cause problems for wireless.

I'm using ndiswrapper and had to use the any-any update because F7 has a 2.5.21 kernel.

I should also check mac filtering on my router as that might be a problem.

-j

>---- Original Message ----
>From:Jason Hayes <jason@jasonhayes.org >
>To:'josh coffman' <joshcoffman@gmail.com>,  Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >
>Subject:Re: vmware on fedora 7
>Date:Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:59:57 -0700
>--------------------

>Josh:
>
>I'm not sure about the screen resolution. My screen settings have just
>always
>cooperated, so I haven't had to fiddle with them.
>
>I have had issues with getting my network connections to work in the past
>though (both wired and wireless).
>
>I'm real busy with work projects right now, so I don't have a lot of time
>to
>go into details. However, the times that I did have trouble, I found out
>that
>it had to do with setting the vmnet1 and vmnet8 protocols to "static" instead
>of "none", or "dhcp".
>
>I blogged about my Vmware issues - see http://www.jasonhayes.org/?p=1898
>and
>http://www.jasonhayes.org/?p=2245 (I have links in these posts to others
>who
>had dealt with networking issues as well).
>
>Since you're using fedora 7, your networking shouldn't be that much different
>(I think) than it would be on my Mandriva system. (Mandriva was originally
>based on Red Hat.)
>
>HTH - if not try Googling around about the static IP thing to see if you
>can
>dig up anything else.
>
>Jason Hayes
>
>
>On Wednesday 22 August 2007 9:19:06 am 'josh coffman' wrote:
>> Hi all,
>
>>   I've got a couple issues that I'm working on with vmware server on
>fedora
>> 7. First, I'm not tied to server if using the player will solve things.
>
>>   Note: guest OS is WinXP; SELinux is off.
>
>>   First problem is the networking. My host machine is on wireless. I
>seem
>> to have trouble setting vmware and the guest OS to use wlan0. It seem
>to
>> get the settings right, but the guest OS won't get a connection. I can
>set
>> it to use a local NAT and get internet connection, but then I can't connect
>> to the guest Os remotely. ..which leads to the second problem...
>
>>   Another problem is running full screen. I can run fullscreen if the
>guest
>> is set to a much smaller resolution. If I set the winXP to a normal Res
>> like 1280 or 1440, then I get some error with X not supporting the vid
>mode
>> when I switch to fullsreen in the vmware server console. Also, the machine
>> tab and status bar are always present.. thought there was a way to hide
>> those.
>
>>   I'm trying to set up a dev environment for my windows work and still
>have
>> linux as my host OS. Running fullscreen is important to me. If I can
>get
>> the networking right, I think I could just Remote Desktop to the guest
>OS
>> and work just fine.
>
>>   My preferred solution is to get the guest OS to use wlan0 correctly
>and
>> get an IP on my lan. Then I could remote desktop WinXP and work that
>way.
>
>>   My secondary choice is to get fullscreen working on the vmware console
>so
>> that I'm running full resolution.
>
>>   My last choice is to put XP back on the desktop and dual boot it. I
>have
>> to have a dev environment.
>
>>   So, how do I set up vmware to use wlan0 for guest OS networking? How
>can
>> I get vmware to run fullscreen with the guest OS resolution at the same
>> level as the host?
>
>> -j
>
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