virtual machines not on the net

[Erik Bixby]

169.254.0.0/16 is a subnet used for automatic configuration.  IP
addresses in that range are not valid and did not come from a DHCP
server.

I am fairly familiar with some of VMware products, not Fusion in
particular.  But, the first thing I personally would look at is if the
configuration files for the VM's weren't somehow damaged during the
hardware hiccup.  Perhaps, using the configuration utility you could
verify that the VM's are still configured as you expect...
-Erik

On 4/27/07, Lynn David Newton <lynn.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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