VMWare Server Bridging Problem
Here’s a weird thing that happened while working with VMWare Server. While trying to get one of my virtual machines bridged to our corporate LAN, I kept getting an error that no dns servers were configured.
The fix was to force the VMnet0 controller choice rather than allow it to bridge to an automatically chosen adapter. By doing that, the virtual machine was able to get an IP on the LAN.
This was for a Windows XP host machine and the configuration is performed by the Virtual Network Editor located on the host at VMWare Server > Manage Virtual Networks.
Thank you! I’ve been pulling my hair out for the last hour and your post here was exactly the solution I needed.
Apparently, my automatically chosen adapter was my Hamachi adapter! Whoops…
Comment by Chris K — December 22, 2008 @ 9:06 pm