> From: Joseph Hufnagle
> VMWare Player seems to work just fine in Windows Vista. I am, however
> having trouble downloading and installing the Cremona database. It attempts
> to download and returns 'Connection timed out'. Is something going on with
> the site that I should know about?
The website is fine. Probably vmware and/or your computer is setup to
not allow external connection from vmware to the rest of the world, hence
you can't download that optional package from within vmware. I've
not used vista (or possibly your anti-virus software) enough to know
anything about configuring vista to allow vmware to connect to the
outside world.
One simple thing you could try is to:
(1) shut down the vmware virtual machine (instead of typing "notebook" at
the prompt type "off").
(2) Change the network to "shared" instead of "Host only" (this is
the network
drop down menu in vmware in the upper right/middle are of the screen)
(3) Start vmware up and try again.
This will use shared networking instead of host only networking, so I
think getting
a connection to the outside world will be very likely to work,
irregardless of any
settings in Windows Vista. Note, however, that you'll likely want to
switch back
to host only networking after you do this, since host only networking
will give you
a much faster and robust connection between vmware and your *local* web
browser.
William
> I bought a new laptop just to run Sage. It has Windows Vista Home
> Basioc on it. I didn't go for a 64-bit machine, so I can't tell you about
> that. Could my being trouble with downloading the Cremona database have
> anything to do with Vista?
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