On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Hi there, > > is there anyone using VMware under NT 4.0?
I just installed it yesterday. > I've successfully installed Debian 2.1r4 as a guest OS under VMware running > in NT 4.0. It was very easy, I didn't have ANY problems whatsoever. I used potato. > HOWEVER I can't get the networking stuff running. The AMC PCnet adapter is > being found, I *can* ping the IP address of my real ethernet adapter (i.e. > the IP address of the host OS,) I can ping the guest OS from the host OS, > but I can't out of my box into the LAN. :-( > > In case it matters I'm using 192.168.0.* addresses for my LAN. "Forwarding" > in NT is enabled. The VMware virtual ethernet adapter under NT has an IP > address of 192.168.230.1. Is that ok? I'm not sure how the whole emulation > thing works, so I don't understand how to fix my problems... I used DHCP during the potato installation (after loading the kernel and drivers from the 5 floppy set). Then it immediately was able to finish the installation from the net. > Currently two services are running under NT: VMnet Bridge (for VMnet0) and > VMnet DHCP Server. Do I really need the DHCP server? I normally don't use > DHCP on my LAN, all IPs are assigned statically. Have you tried using an IP addr on the same subnet as NT's original IP? ...RickM...
