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thomdalladay

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VMware Server

Hello,

I've recently purchased a dedicated server with Arch Linux installed...  I've compiled vmware-server and vmware-server-modules from AUR, made a bridge network via eth0... Question is, how do I configure the guest OSes (also Arch Linux)?

If I supply one of the three IPs I've been assigned (only one is assigned to eth0 currently, the other two have no virtual interfaces) and set the gateway and DNS IPs to the eth0 IP address, I can't ping any domains nor get external access.

What do I need to do to configure the Arch Linux guests to work?

Sin.citadel

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Registered: 2008-01-22

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Re: VMware Server

since it is in bridged mode, you need to assign it the gateway and dns settings you have assigned for eth0 and the second dedicated ip address. dont assign the gateway to eth0's ip addresss

thomdalladay

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Re: VMware Server

Hmm, I've done that - yet I still can't access external addresses (I can't even ping the gateway!)

Sin.citadel

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Re: VMware Server

have you configured the bridge correctly, is your host able to ping the guest, show the output of ifconfig and route.

thomdalladay

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Re: VMware Server

I can ping the host from the guest, and vice versa

ifconfig from the guest:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:7A:99:08
          inet addr:192.168.0.61  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:144912 (141.5 Kb)  TX bytes:12435 (12.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

route from guest:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

ifconfig from host:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:72:BE:F5:08
          inet addr:192.168.0.16  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:febe:f508/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:176255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:81160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:183994239 (175.4 Mb)  TX bytes:14043263 (13.3 Mb)
          Memory:fe9c0000-fe9e0000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:47153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:47153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:28426956 (27.1 Mb)  TX bytes:28426956 (27.1 Mb)

vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
          inet addr:172.16.79.1  Bcast:172.16.79.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

route from host:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
172.16.79.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet8
default         .               0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

IPs have been changed to local ones for obvious reasons

thomdalladay

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Re: VMware Server

Hmm, problem solved.  I think ping must be blocked for some reason!