Re: vmware on fedora 7

['josh coffman']

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 at jasonhayes.org>
>To:'josh coffman' <joshcoffman at gmail.com>,  Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at 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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