virtual machines not on the net

[Lynn Newton]

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 <daniyel95 at 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 at 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 at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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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Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ