[PLUG] More vmware advice

Benjamin Watson bwatson1979 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 04:19:12 UTC 2007


I run VMWare Server 1.0.1 on a Windows XP host serving a Ubuntu Guest.

I'm on a school network, but came across your particular scenario as I
wanted the VM accessible beyond the Host machine.  You can configure
the network settings during the VM build, or after, it doesn't matter
really.

Anyhow, for what you describe, I think you'll want to specify the
bridged connection.  In my setup, both the Host and Guest have the
same IP address.  Therefore, since I don't have any web server running
on my Windows Host box, all web traffic directed toward the shared IP
address is picked up by my VM Guest running apache.

However, you can also specify that the VM get its own IP address as
well.  You'd do this from within the VM guest using the traditional
tools available in the guest OS.

HTH,

Ben

On 3/7/07, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-
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