[PLUG-TALK] Setting vm IP address for 'Net access

[wes]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, wes wrote:
>
> > a) how do you have networking configured in your VM software? if you set
> > it to Bridge mode, the guest OS will be able to obtain an IP
> automatically
> > from your DHCP server.
>
> Wes,
>
>    With the fedora windows virtio package.
>
> > b) Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network and Sharing Center,
> > then "Change Adapter Settings" on the left. you should see a list of
> > network interfaces available, one should be named "Local Area Connection"
> > or similar. right-click on this and click Properties. if you don't have
> > it, then your VM software does not have networking configured for this
> > guest OS. once you get into the adapter properties, find "Internet
> > Protocol" and go into the Properties of that. then you'll see the options
> > for specifying the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS servers.
>
>    Okay. I did this and the local area connection 2 dialog box says there's
> no network access for ipv4. Yet when I click the 'properties' button the
> box
> displays the IP address (192.168.55.50), netmask (255.255.255.0), and


....



> gateway (192.168.55.4)



um, what?


> with DNS servers of 8.8.8.8 and 192.168.55.1.
>

can you ping 192.168.55.1? or 192.168.55.anything? from within the guest OS.

alternatively, can you ping 192.168.55.50 from any other host on your
network?

-wes
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