[Novalug] How do I select different NICs in VMWare?

Rich Goodwin rich.goodwin@cox.net
Tue Aug 21 20:01:39 EDT 2007


I have a laptop with a 10/100 Mb NIC (eth0) and an Intel wireless card
(eth1).  I installed VMware Player back in Feb/March.  It worked
perfectly.  I loaded  a guest OS and accessed the net via the wireless
connection.  VMware server came out and I started trying that for the
USB 2.0 support (or at least I thought that it worked).  Well, long
story short, I am now, after uninstalling/installing the VMware Player &
Server several times, unable to get the connection working.

I see bridging, NATing and host-only services being set right based on
the init.d start/stop:

bigtux:/etc/init.d # ./vmware stop
Stopping VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                  done
   Blocking file system:                    done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0        done
   Host network detection                   done
   DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1               done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1      done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2        done
   DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8               done
   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8               done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8      done
   Virtual ethernet                         done
bigtux:/etc/init.d # ./vmware start
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                  done
   Blocking file system:                    done
   Virtual ethernet                         done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0        done
   Host network detection                   done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
   DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1               done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2        done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
   DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8               done
   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8               done
bigtux:/etc/init.d #               

So I think the big question is how can I switch around the virtual
NICs??  I will likely use the wired connection the most but will
occassionally use the wireless one in certain circumstances.

Rich

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