Vmware server on Server 2008 and Ubuntu Server

leblinux · 04-29-2010, 05:20 AM

Hello,

I have a problem with my setup. I have 2 Network Cards on Server 2008 machine which is a Host machine. I have installed Ubuntu server but I want to bridge its network to the physical network card number 2 on my Host Machine (server 2008). I would like to ping the static ip of the assigned network card 2 on Server 2008 which would act as if am pinging the static IP on ubuntu. So how do I accomplish that.

Technical part:

Windows Server 2008 as Host:
2 NICS.

NIC 1 has the network of 192.168.X.X.
NIC 2 has the network address of 193.188.Y.Y.

Both networks can Ping each other.

I want Ubuntu Server the Guest to has the NIC 2 address.

I tried bridging and Host only and Natting didn't work in the Vmware's network manager.
But I believe I have bad configuration in the vmware network manager. Anyone could help me on this.

I want Ubuntu to get the ip of NIC 2 and act part of the 193.188.Y.Y Network.

I installed the vmware-tools from ubuntu open-vmware-tools and it loaded vmxnet into the modules but running ifconfig -a doesn't display the vmxnet it displays on eth0. I want eth0 to be pointed to NIC 2 on Server 2008 so it can find its way to the LAN.

Here is my lsmod output:

Quote:

lsmod
Module Size Used by
xt_dscp 2140 0
iptable_nat 5500 0
nf_nat 17808 1 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 13352 3 iptable_nat,nf_nat
nf_conntrack 67608 3 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv4 1756 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
iptable_mangle 3452 0
ipt_LOG 5344 4
acpiphp 22480 0
vmsync 3992 0
vmmemctl 8636 0
vmhgfs 50772 0
iptable_filter 3100 1
ip_tables 11692 3 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables 16544 4 xt_dscp,iptable_nat,ipt_LOG,ip_tables
ppdev 6688 0
psmouse 56180 0
serio_raw 5280 0
parport_pc 32228 1
lp 8964 0
intel_agp 27748 1
vmxnet 17984 0
shpchp 32336 0
parport 35340 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
agpgart 35020 1 intel_agp
i2c_piix4 10124 0
vmci 29280 0
mptspi 17764 3
mptscsih 34556 1 mptspi
mptbase 89348 2 mptspi,mptscsih
floppy 54980 0
scsi_transport_spi 23036 1 mptspi

Ifconfig -a shows only eth0 which is currently on NAT.
I want it to display the virtual networks which I could pinpoint it to the birdged physical network. Any ideas?

Dpkg-query shows:

ii open-vm-modules-2.6.31-14-generic-pae 2009.07.22-179896-2+2.6.31-14.48 open-vm modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.31-14-
ii open-vm-source 2009.07.22-179896-2 Source for VMware guest systems driver
ii open-vm-tools 2009.07.22-179896-2 tools and components for VMware guest system

Any ideas why I can't configure eth0 to point it to the physical network address of the Host?

Regards,

Saad

acid_kewpie · 04-30-2010, 04:35 PM

you're contradicting yourself here, first you say you want to bridge, but then say you want the 2nd windows nic to map to the ubuntu machine. Well that second one is not bridging, it's (a specific version of) a NAT interface, which surely isn't really what you want. The rest of your description backs up you wanting bridging, but in that scenario, the ubuntu box would have it's own IP that the 2k8 machine would be totally oblivious to. Bridging makes the host nic function as a switch, so at ethernet level, not IP level - i.e. no IP addresses are involved at all.

So you don't have a problem with your setup, you have a problem with your understanding of the setup ;-)