On Fri, 17 May 2002, Andrew Eager wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just got vmware running on my machine. Its using a pre-installed > Win98 on a separate partition. The machine was previously a dual boot > with both OS's using the same IP address. > > My question is: > > How do I have the virtual Win98 session and Linux use the same IP address?
why do you want this? It needs the bridged connection because the machine is actually using the host system ethernet adaptor to route packets to the vm. There's really no other way to get packets to the vm OS. -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
