RE: [PLUG] vmware server: networking and clipboard

[Chad Vogelsong <csv@gamebox.net>]

First, what VMWare product are you running?  Server?  Workstation?  Player?

Unless you have some kind of routing / gateway setup on you linux box, you will 
need to have a card in the VM share the IP of eth1 and then have another card 
with a private IP.

Card 1 = NAT with eth1
Card 2 = bridged with eth0 if you have your machine connect to a switch or 
something on a lan.  It can get it's own IP on your lan this way.

You may have better luck if you put some kind of router / firewall / gateway 
device in between the DSL modem & your computer.  Then your computer will only 
have 1 internal IP address and your VM can have a bridged interface with it's 
own internal IP (using the routers DHCP).

If you are using the free server version (that's what I use), there doesn't 
appear to be any clipboard sharing, but for file transfer, I can just do FTP, 
SCP, Samba shares, etc.

Hope that gives you at least a starting point.

Chad


> I am looking for help or documentation for configuring vmware networking.  I 
> have not been able to find anything useful myself.
>
> host = ubuntu 6.06 (dapper)
> vm = w2k pro
> on host, eth0 = lan, eth1 = dsl modem
>
> The first time I set this up, the vm was accessing the internet but not the 
> lan.  I had to delete the vm and recreate.  Now it seems to access neither.  
> I am having trouble figuring this out from the documentation provided on the 
> vmware site.
>
> It seems that I need to set up some sort of virtual lan between the host and 
> the vm in order to share files and access the clipboard between the two.  
> Again, I can't figure this out from the documentation provided on the vmware 
> site.
>
> Any help, or a good URL, will be most appreciated.
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