> By the config script, do you mean the VMware Tools?
> (... Scurries off to try and answer the question by
> doing it.)
Running vmware tools did nothing to change my net connectivity.
Sorry, I'm running a beta here and have no documentation. Is
there something else I should be running?
These v-machines ran peachy keen for several days before the
hard shutdown.
> On 4/27/07, Daniel Parraz <daniyel95@yahoo.com> 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 <BONeal@cornerstonehome.com> 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
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