[Oracle-l] Oracle Enterprise Linux on VMware Server

I've had Oracle's Linux working on VMWare with a WinXP host.

With a bridging Network the IP address of the Linux Server must be a
valid IP address on the network that the host is on, i.e. don't use
the same IP as the host. The VM will then appear on the network as if
it were a stand alone machine. In fact when you install the guest OS
you should just imagine you are installing it on a new machine, forget
that it's running on VMWare.

Also don't change anything in the VMware Network Adapters, I don't
know how it works but it seems to me that VMWare manages them, you
don't need to do anything with them.

I've installed various versions of Linux (Oracle, Red Hat, Ubuntu),
Win2k, WinXP and the networking (DHCP and Static IP) all worked out of
the box without problems.

Neil

For vmware networking I have mostly used Natting with success, sorry cant comment on the bridge option.

If your intention is to have the VM Showing up as another server on the Network, then I think your approach is right. This is a wild guess - you can probably fiddle with the IPaddr on the VM and make it in sync with your static IP.

For internet access. Check if it has to do with Proxy, replicate any proxy Settings present on win to linux.

Thanks!
Amar

Hi,
I've had Enterprise Linux 4.5 running on a VMware Server 1.0.0 within
a Linux host. As per my opinion, what the host os is doesn't matter
much. And that the Enterprise Linux is just another RHEL, there is no
big difference between them. So Enterprise Linux aught to be able to
run in VMware 'cause RHEL is supported(I think) by VMware.
I guess it's your network config which causes the problem. I don't
quite get what you mean by these paragraph. Did you lost something to
paste and are the two 195.175.25.1s typos? Could you please be more
clear about this? And please post the details of the two machines'
(host and guest) network configuration here.
Hopefully your Linux's ip configuration is OK, because you can contact
your host(from your guest machine). However, how about the opposite
way? And I'm not clear about "when you use dhcp" you *what* network
service won't start, host's? or guest's? And the dhcp is VMware's or
just some configuration in the Linux guest?

I think you made a typo here--you didn't change the last digit by 1. At any rate, as has been mentioned, you can't just pick another address unless you're sure that other address has not been assigned to anything else (and won't be assigned in the future). If you can get to the VM, but not the internet, then you may have a routing issue. Make sure your default gateway (in the VM) matches the default gateway that is set on your host. Also make sure that the subnet mask in your VM linux install matches what's on your XP host (assuming that's where VMWare is running).

You're right--it shouldn't be that complicated :).

Dan