VMWare Server: using a bridged eth. with bridged interfaces

VinzC

Hi.

I've installed VMWare Server 1.0.2 build 39867 on my Gentoo laptop, which has one wired and one wireless interfaces that I've bridged. I'd like to know if - and how - I can use a bridged network interface in VMWare with my host bridge, which is br0. Currently it doesn't seem to work but I've done nothing more than run the VMWare configuration Perl script.

Thanks for any hint or information.
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thesheff17 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 283

if you install vmware and just point the network at the primary eth device you should be fine. You prob could even point it at br0 if you can make sure that br0 has access to the network. I have never done this before, but I would like to know if it works since I am a huge fan of vmware.

VinzC · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:47 am Post subject:

In fact I have my bridged VMNET already point to br0 but it doesn't seem to work as there doesn't seem to be any activity on the virtual interface.
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thesheff17 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 283

what os are you running in the vmware? does it get an IP? can you ping www.google.com or something?

VinzC · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

No matter what the guest operating system is (I tried Windows XP and Gentoo Linux) no packet reaches or goes through the virtual NIC (from the guest OS point of view). There should be two virtual interfaces on the host system (Gentoo), vmnet0 (bridged) and vmnet8 (NATed) as per VMWare setup. I can only see vmnet8 with ifconfig although ls -ld /dev/vm* returns vmnet0 and vmnet8... Also ls -l /sys/class/net only reports vmnet8.

I've tried bridging against eth1 (wireless) but then vmware warns me that bridging against a wireless device is not supported. And it doesn't work either. So I'm afraid vmware bridging works only with wired ethernet adapters, not bridges nor WiFi.

I'd understand bridging doesn't work against an already established bridge since it would result in nesting bridges, which I doubt would work.
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