I think there's a patch for the vmware tools to fix this issue, although I don't remember where. I also think that it was fixed in VMWare server 2 beta, if you want to play with.
Thanks, Hetz On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one of my clients started playing around with vitual machine images on > VMware player, VMware server (free edition) and Virtualbox. we tried > hosting ready-made images from the net as well as local installs of > Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 and Fedora8 with an XPO machine as host. in all cases > we add a few packages (not upgrading kernel), reboot and find that we > have no real LAN connection. ethtool shows link is up but no DHCP > replies are coming. I bumped into Network-Manager there and could not > figure out where it stores the configs so on the Ubuntu I ust removed it > (and saw the eth definition show up in /etc/network/interfaces instead, > yay!), but a reboot left me still with no LAN connection. > > I thought it was the VMware tools I compiled, but the same happend on > Virtualbox! and both before and after the reboot, it was the same > pcnet32 driver, taking it out and insmodding again made no difference. > > then I accidentaly discovered booting at Single-luser mode left me with > working LAN and dhcp, which worked if I then continued to runlevel 2 > (Ubuntu), but booting to runlevel2 the normal way left me disconnected > again. this is REPEATABLE. > > till I find a solution, I told the guy to boot to "recovery mode" and > just hit "ctrl-D" at the single-user-mode prompt, and then LAN works. > > anyone got an explanation for this extremely odd behvior?! > > -- > The Smartest Man on Earth > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
