Zane Gilmore wrote:
I am trying to get a VMware virtual machine going on my Kubuntu box.
It is a Windows XP VM and it almost goes perfectly. The main sticking
point I am having is that there is one application that I need that
refuses to behave.
It is a document handling thing called SilentOne and it craps out when
it tries to connect to the server.
It seems to be able to make an initial connection to the server and get
connection details but when an attempt to actually connect for real it
refuses to get as far as the login challenge eventually timing out
saying that the server is not responding.
This particular VM is a copy of one that works when run on a Windows
host and all of the other networking works on the Kubuntu host.
As I said all of the other apps are going fine including browsers and
email.
So what I am suspecting is a problem at the VMware bridging thingy at
the Linux end.
This app seems to connect on port 8080 which is also the web proxy and
it talks back on what appears to be a random port above 1024
<the question>
Does anybody know where the config stuff for the eth bridging that
VMware uses is kept?
What about how it works?
</the question>
Google appears to be reasonably unforthcoming.
There was stuff about ipv6 incompatibilty so I turned that off and
there was a ethtool command that turned a few things off at the card
level which I also did.
None of these things worked.
This could be a real show stopper for my running Linux as my base OS so
I need to solve it.
Thanks,
Zane
There may be some useful info here - note there are additional issues if
you're running a 64bit distro:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=779934
This suggests NOT needing the any-any-update, however every time I have
run into issues with vmware in the past, the recommendations invariably
include using it. I have had some random issues with some VMs that seem
related to the particular hardware of the host. For example at home my
guests could never see the host file system despite all other machines
on the network being able to see all files in any
direction/combination. While on work machines I'd not experience such
problems. Never did manage to figure that one out - what I can say is
that now with Hardy and 1.06 I am "issue free" for the first time.
Are you using the very latest build?
Cheers,
Roger
