VM Debian "Jessie" guest running on VM workstation 12.0 cannot acquire any IP address on a laptop with win 8 and wifi

cugnao · 04-03-2016, 09:10 AM

Hi everybody

I am still a beginner on linux and I tried to install a VM with Debian "Jessie" via VM workstation running on a laptop with win 8.1 with wifi . I use the netinstall to get the basic core but first the network configuration failed then I continue the installation until the end. I can configure manually the network interfaces of the Debian via the file /etc/network/interfaces but when I configure one of the network interfaces to get an IP address via DHCP I don't get any IP address.
I have been stuck for a long time.
Normally if I install Debian as a VM guest, it should see the wifi card of my laptop as a classic Ethernet card, correct?

Regars

273 · 04-03-2016, 10:38 AM

You can either:
1) Tell the virtual machine to connect to the network as if it were using internet connection sharing on the host, usually labelled as something like NAT.
2) Tell the virtual machine to connect to the network as if it is a separate machine and obtain it's IP address through DHCP from your router, usually called something like Bridged.
3) Something else more complicated.
Most people use 1 in a home setting when starting out but I tend to use 2. In either case you are correct that the virtual machine software should present a virtual ethernet adaptor to the guest machine.
For more details you'll need to let us know which virtual machine software you are using and how you set up the networking for the guest.

cugnao · 04-03-2016, 11:23 AM

Hi 273
Thank you for your answer, I use VMware workstation 12.0, I configure the network adapter to act as "bridged" connected directly to the physical host
The VMware virtual network adapter should be seen as E1000 intel MT but when I use the command lspci on the VMware it seems to not display it

cugnao · 04-04-2016, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273

You can either:
1) Tell the virtual machine to connect to the network as if it were using internet connection sharing on the host, usually labelled as something like NAT.
2) Tell the virtual machine to connect to the network as if it is a separate machine and obtain it's IP address through DHCP from your router, usually called something like Bridged.
3) Something else more complicated.
Most people use 1 in a home setting when starting out but I tend to use 2. In either case you are correct that the virtual machine software should present a virtual ethernet adaptor to the guest machine.
For more details you'll need to let us know which virtual machine software you are using and how you set up the networking for the guest.

Hi 273
Thank you for your answer, I use VMware workstation 12.0, I configure the network adapter to act as "bridged" connected directly to the physical host
The VMware virtual network adapter should be seen as E1000 intel MT but when I use the command lspci on the VMware it seems to not display it

BW-userx · 04-04-2016, 08:25 AM

Do not make it more complicated then it already is. Do not have your VBox client started. Go into settings for it, then into network, then on the tab 'Adapter 2' select drop down list-> bridged adapter then under 'name' select your host adapter to the internet. click ok. done.

if you have done this after the install of your client then in the client selecting the second connection to the internet has always worked for me. you should then only have two, so one of them better had worked.