Joseph B. Welsh on 26 Apr 2007 16:02:23 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] vmware server: networking and clipboard


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:39 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Friday 20 April 2007 10:19, Joseph B. Welsh wrote:
> > Hi Art,
> > I using the Feisty Fawn Beta (Kubuntu) and Vmware running 4 vm's on my
> > laptop
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 09:26 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > If you have multiple lan adapters on your host, it should have asked you
> > to run Bridged and Nat setup for each adapter when you
> > ran ./vmware-config.pl.  I suggest try running that again and select
> > bridged network for each adapter.  Also set up a host only network for
> > access to your host files
> >
> > In order, it should ask you to setup a bridged, NAT, and Host only
> > network
> >
> > If you've done that you can add network adapters to your VM by adding
> > them in the configuration of the VM
> >
> > On my laptop VMNET0 is Bridged to my Network Lan card
> > and VMNET8 is a host only network
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > You can also set up shared folder on you VM.  Before your start up the
> > VM edit the Vm's settings and select the Options tab, and enter the host
> > directories you wish to share.  Then in the VM, Go to Network
> > Neighborhood and you should see you host with all the shared
> > directories.
> 
> I tried to do this.
> 
> I re-ran vmware-config.pl and chose the networking options you recommended.  
> It is hard to tell if it detected both NICs or whether it just added another 
> virtual NIC.  It compiled the kernel modules it needed.
> 
> I couldn't find anywhere in the options or hardware settings of the VM to set 
> up shares.  Screen shots of the settings dialog are posted to 
> http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/vmware_screenshots/settings_shots.html
> 
> Do I have to do something to my samba configuration to make this work?


Art,

>From your screen shots it looks like you are using vmplayer not
vmware-workstation.  I don't believe the extras that you are trying to
use come with vmware player.

Joe

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