[PLUG] More vmware advice

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Thu Mar 8 04:18:07 UTC 2007


> Hi All-
> Drunk from the success of getting vmware working under fedora core (thanks
> to everyone who helped!) I'm attempting my next adventure. I'd like to
> install a VM (easy enough) but I confused on the networking setup. I'd like
> this VM to have its own public IP so I have no idea which option(s) to
> choose during setup in order to accomplish this. The guest (linux) will be
> running on a linux host w/ public IP as well so I'm not sure if there any
> caveats to this setup? Google has so far failed me so any pointers to docs
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Drew-

Super simple.  Just choose "bridged" networking.  Later, when running
vmware-config.pl, go ahead and let the script build both a NAT and
a host-only network for you as well, just so you'll have the option to
use them later.

Carlos Konstanski



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