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Old 10-22-2007, 03:49 AM   #1
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cannot connect Host to Guest OS (vmware)


hi. i installed winxp as guest os in slack 12.0 i chose BRIDGE network BUT i cant connect (transfer files) from host to guest and vice versa. . .

btw my winxp firewall is not active. . .

then host unreachable whenever i ping the IP of winxp (tru command line)

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Old 10-22-2007, 09:33 PM   #2
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Post ur `ifconfig` result. Maybe IP of the guest os is not correct.
 
Old 10-23-2007, 04:53 AM   #3
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Post ur `ifconfig` result. Maybe IP of the guest os is not correct.

starting vmware :

root@darkstar:/var/log# /etc/rc.d/vmware start
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
Starting VMware virtual machines... done


ifconfig -a


root@darkstar:/var/log# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:95:33:C1:B4
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.215.125.227 P-t-P:202.78.97.139 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3947 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3874 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:2790804 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:538578 (525.9 KiB)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01
inet addr:192.168.217.1 Bcast:192.168.217.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.251.1 Bcast:172.16.251.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
 
  


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