virtual machines not on the net

[Lynn Newton]

> When you installed VMware, you should have ran a script from command line
> that had you setup our system for VMware, like the kernel libs for it,
> networking, license, etc.

> /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

I've done this several times on both Linux VMs, including the
whole recompiling of the tools, etc.

That's what I assumed was meant by a "config script", so that's
what I ran, incluing just a few minutes ago. It didn't
change anything.

After running that, there is also /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox, an
X based utility that doesn't seem to be much use in addressing
the problem at hand.

Thanks.

> 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