vmnetcfg doesn't show your nics? What kind of nics are you using? Wireless?
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I have two NICs on my host machine (the host is running vista)
I have created a VMware machine using easyvmx at http://easyvmx.com/ for a linux machine with 2 NICs
The Linux VM boots up beautifully with VMPlayer with eth0 and eth1
However, BOTH eth0 and eth1 are bound to the same physical NIC on the host. Depending which subnet I plug that NIC into, either eth0 or eth1 works (obviously not both)
How do I configure my .vmx file to force an adapter to use a particular host NIC?
A copy of my .vmx file is below:
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The NICs are:
1. Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller (On a Dell Inspiron Laptop)
2. USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter (Generic)
I do have a 3rd Wireless adapter which can also confuse VMWare, but in this situation I always disable it.
Sometimes VMWare Player uses the Broadcom adapter as its "automatically" chosen adapter, other times it chooses the USB. There are even times when it switches from one adapter to the other (such as if I disconnect the currently working adapter). But always, one one adapter is used.
Update: I have now managed to assign multiple adapters using vmnetcfg.exe (Previously I forgot to run as Administrator in Vista)
So my assigned network adapters are as shown in the screen dump
And I've updated the .vmx config as shown in the code snippet.
BUT - both virtual adapters use VMnet0 - I can't get the second one to use VMnet2.
Can anyone help?
Looks like I've finally got it solved. The problem seemed to be the fact that I was trying to use VMNet2 in the config above - that may have been related to the fact that I had renamed my adapters in Windows to "VMNet1" and "VMNet2" rather than leaving them as "Local Area Connection 4" and "Local Area Connection 5" which is what thery were automatically called upon installation.
The final config file and vmnet.cfg settings are shown below: (Or at least teh relevant bits)
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by: red_nectarPosted on 2008-09-01 at 19:52:52ID: 22363923
Note: Forgot to emphasise that I'm running VMWare PLAYER, not VMWare workstation. I also forgot to mention that vmnetcfg.exe for VMWare Player does not show the nics on my PC when I access it
(See picture)
vmnetcfg screen - note host NICs not listed