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Re: Virtual Machines and the search for freedom

revjim — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:27:18 -0000

Thank you!! This worked perfectly.

It's nice to have yet a third option in trying to find a way to make this work as best as possible.

Re: Virtual Machines and the search for freedom

Matt Fox — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:43:16 -0000

The post at http://cs.thefoleyhouse.co.uk/blogs/karl/archiv... explains how to make bridged networking work with a WLAN card in VMWare server 1.0.X, though the details are sparse. It worked for me. (Vista Business SP1 host, Ubuntu 7.04 server guest).

Basically, you need to:
1. Make a registry change that tells VMWare to allow Windows network bridging
2. Add a new virtual network adaptor (Virtual Network Editor->Host Virtual Adapters tab)
3. Remove the DHCP scope for the adapter added in (2) (Virtual Network Editor->DHCP tab)
4. Bridge the adapter added in (2) with your host wireless connection

Re: Virtual Machines and the search for freedom

revjim — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:06:03 -0000

Ha. No no. Vista is my host. XP is the guest. And, yeah, I installed the guest additions.

Re: Virtual Machines and the search for freedom

Matt — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:56:50 -0000

VirtualBox is pretty great compared to VMWare. Did you install the guest additions?

I've only used it with Linux (Ubuntu) on Vista so I have no idea how shit-tastic it'll be with Vista *in* VirtualBox, but it's worked well for me so far.

Re: Virtual Machines and the search for freedom

joiseyguy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:24:03 -0000

why don't you just poke burning toothpicks into your eyeballs..it would be less painful.