Sharing IP between VMWare and host OS

Locura · 12-03-2003, 12:46 PM

Bear with me, I am a complete linux networking n00b.

I am running Slackware 9 and have a Windows 2000 VM installed using VMWare. I can get internet connectivity on the VM, however VMWare uses DHCP and grabs a unique IP, something which I would like to avoid. I let VMWare's config utility create an interface called vmnet8, and here is the output from ifconfig:

Code:

vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr <removed>  
          inet addr:192.168.197.1  Bcast:192.168.197.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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:100 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

So the vmnet interface has been set to use a private subnet, which is one step in the right direction. I just don't know where to go from there. How do I force Win2K to use that device to obtain its IP address? Is this something I need to set up in VMWare itself?

Locura · 12-03-2003, 12:58 PM

Actually, nevermind. I decided to look thoroughly through the VMWare settings and found an option to configure the device for networking, and set it to vmnet8, and I am now getting an IP on the private subnet.