Re: VMWare as a networking alternative

On Jan 20, 2008 5:42 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ben Kevan wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:38:53 pm vamythguy wrote:
I want to switch my laptop over to linux, but still plan to run an XP
virtual host. My laptop has a broadcom wireless card which seems to be
troublesome. It seems that the reverse config (windows host, linux guest)
would allow the linux virtual to hit the net via nat through the windows
master. Is the reverse possible, for the windows guest to provide net
services to the linux master?

Try NAT networking. VMWare has a problem with the new kernels and wireless.

I can't (yet) speak for the latest kernels. I have an XP VM running on
my FC6 laptop. It can access the "net" pretty well, and active
connections can be made to come back to it via a current outgoing
connection, but I've had trouble accessing it directly except from the
hosting laptop on its VM wetwork, even though routing is supposedly set
up correctly (ip_forward and subnet routes) on the other networked
machines. I'm not sure if the VMWare network is NATing on my laptop or not.

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Kevin J. Cummings

Many VMware users run Fedora and other linux distributions as a guest
on Windows. Browse topics on VMware's user forums and get a feel for
the problems being encountered.

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