According to a brief goog, there are issues connecting interfaces with player 
v4. Supposed to be fixed in v5.
Other than that, it seems possible to do. I’ve never used player. I run Fusion 
on the mac.


On Jul 10, 2014, at 8:22 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote:

> No,  I am not ready to move it to the ESXi yet, I am still running it in
> VMWare
> Player on a linux machine. I just want to add a 2nd network adapter, which I
> have done, but for some reason it does not want to talk to the 2nd NIC card
> on my machine. The first virtual adapter talks to the first NIC card just
> fine,
> but when I try to make the second one talk to the second card, no joy, I am
> setting it up in bridged mode, if I use NAT I can not get back into it from
> the
> other network, just outgoing. I would like to use bridged so it gets it's
> own IP
> and I can access it remotely, once I have everything the way I want it I
> will
> move the VM over to the ESXi machine, I have several applications with
> dual adapters running just fine there, it is on the VM Player that I am
> having
> issues.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Louis Kowolowski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Are you actually wanting to move it from your desktop to esxi? If so, you
>> should be able to use VMware converter (free from vmware last I checked). I
>> believe there is a linux version. It will read in the VM files locally, and
>> connect to your ESXi (or vcenter) and deposit things there. Once there, the
>> config should be much easier. If you don’t have vcenter, you can do
>> everything through VIC (vmware infrastructure client). If you have vcenter,
>> you should be able to access the webby interface and do what you need to
>> that way.
>> It should be approx.:
>> choose which interfaces are associated with which networks (your esxi will
>> need to either have vlan tagging on the vswitches, or different uplinks for
>> each vswitch).
>> make sure you check the box for “connected”
>> boot your vm
>> you should see both interfaces show up (not familiar with icinga vms
>> specifically, so I can’t answer why they start at a particular number) and
>> you can configure the interfaces in the normal fashion.
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Folks,
>>> I have a VM with Icinga setup on it. The VMWare host is running on
>>> Xubuntu 14.04.
>>> 
>>> The Icinga VM is CentOS 6, I am now able to interrogate devices on
>>> my network, but now I want to be able to use two Ethernet ports on
>>> the VM one to talk to the network I am monitoring and the other to
>>> talk to the business network in the building so that the application can
>>> be observed remotely.
>>> 
>>> I have setup ESXi machines, that was a no brainer, setting up each
>>> port and giving the VM's the virtual ports, but this test machine I am
>>> running on is using VMWare Player. I have two network adaptors en-
>>> abled on it, one for the SCADA network I am monitoring and the other
>>> for the business network so it can be accessed remotely.
>>> 
>>> The problem is I can not get the VM to see both adaptors, as setup in
>>> VMWare Player, it will see one or the other, it does bring up two ether
>>> net ports if there are two adaptors setup. I have used the VMWare tool
>>> to map each adaptor to the physical nics, but still no joy. The other
>> thing
>>> I notice is that the ethernet ports on the VM start at eth3 and go up,
>> not
>>> sure why it does not start at eth0.
>>> 
>>> I am also trying to figure out what they have done with the network
>>> stuff in this VM, if anyone is familiar with the Icinga VM's I could use
>>> some guidance. My application is talking nicely to the devices on the
>>> SCADA loop, just need to be able to get it off of my desktop to other
>>> people's browsers.
>>> 
>>> 
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