Vmware workstation + Linux

[yeleek]

Hi,

Have vmware workstation installed on a Opensuse 11 host. The machine has 1x wifi connection and 1x wired connection. I never use the wired connection... I'd like all my virtual machines to either use bridged/nat and be able to access the internet via my wifi connection.

However - vmware install has configured addresses ranges for bridged/nat which do not tie up with my own 'real' ranges. How do i get nat or bridging working properly? Under windows its so much easier, i'm a bit at a loss of what to do when its a linux host.

Thanks

[HROAdmin26]

Question does not make sense to me.

Attaching the VM guest NIC to the "bridged" network puts it on the same subnet as the host's NIC.

Attaching it to the NAT network puts the guest NIC on a "virtual switch" (private subnet/IP range) that has NAT'ed access to the outside world.

Either way, you can't use bridged mode if the physical NIC is wireless. NAT and Host-Only will work though.

VMWare WKS Documentation

[yeleek]

Thanks for reply, found the problem. MAC address filtering on the router.

[HROAdmin26]

Great - can you confirm if you are using bridged networking with the wireless NIC in the host??

I know with VMWare Server, bridged networking across a wireless NIC doesn't work.

If it is working, please let us know which wireless NIC it is and what driver is being used.

[yeleek]

Great - can you confirm if you are using bridged networking with the wireless NIC in the host??

I know with VMWare Server, bridged networking across a wireless NIC doesn't work.

If it is working, please let us know which wireless NIC it is and what driver is being used.

Am using NAT - after you replied i started thinking about what else could stop it. Turned off MAC filtering, restarted the vm. And it came straight up....

So thanks

FYI its a iwl3945 running under opensuse11.