Solaris 10 on Vmware 7 in Windows 7 x64: can't ping my default router !

[Fr3nc3sco]

Hi all,

I've created a virtual machine using Vmware 7 on Windows 7 x64 installing
Solaris 10 (image downloaded today from oracle site): everything is fine
except the networking, I can't ping my default router and of course can't
connect to web.

I've set in vmware the network mode as "bridged", set everything on Solaris:
/etc/defaultrouter with 192.168.0.1, /etc/hostname.e1000g0, /etc/hosts ,
/etc/resolv.conf with 192.168.0.1, /etc/nsswitch.conf with "dns" before
"files" for hosts and ipnode.

Before I had a Windows XP SP3 system with Vmware 6, a 2008 release of
Solaris 10 and everything worked like a charm !

Thanks all for any help and best regards,
Ale

[Bill Waddington]

Post by Fr3nc3sco
Hi all,
I've created a virtual machine using Vmware 7 on Windows 7 x64 installing
Solaris 10 (image downloaded today from oracle site): everything is fine
except the networking, I can't ping my default router and of course can't
connect to web.
/etc/defaultrouter with 192.168.0.1, /etc/hostname.e1000g0, /etc/hosts ,
/etc/resolv.conf with 192.168.0.1, /etc/nsswitch.conf with "dns" before
"files" for hosts and ipnode.
Before I had a Windows XP SP3 system with Vmware 6, a 2008 release of
Solaris 10 and everything worked like a charm !
Thanks all for any help and best regards,
Ale

This probably isn't much help: I'm running Win 7 64 as a host, S10 U7
(vanilla DVD ISO downloaded from Sun/Oracle) with VM network mode
"NAT" and S10 networking set to DHCP (during the install). It's
working fine.

Bill

[Bill Waddington]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:25:35 -0800, Bill Waddington

Post by Bill Waddington

Post by Fr3nc3sco
Hi all,
I've created a virtual machine using Vmware 7 on Windows 7 x64 installing
Solaris 10 (image downloaded today from oracle site): everything is fine
except the networking, I can't ping my default router and of course can't
connect to web.
/etc/defaultrouter with 192.168.0.1, /etc/hostname.e1000g0, /etc/hosts ,
/etc/resolv.conf with 192.168.0.1, /etc/nsswitch.conf with "dns" before
"files" for hosts and ipnode.
Before I had a Windows XP SP3 system with Vmware 6, a 2008 release of
Solaris 10 and everything worked like a charm !
Thanks all for any help and best regards,
Ale

This probably isn't much help: I'm running Win 7 64 as a host, S10 U7
(vanilla DVD ISO downloaded from Sun/Oracle) with VM network mode
"NAT" and S10 networking set to DHCP (during the install). It's
working fine.

Sorry, forgot to say VMWare Player 3.

Bill

[Alessandro]

Post by Bill Waddington

Post by Bill Waddington
This probably isn't much help: I'm running Win 7 64 as a host, S10 U7
(vanilla DVD ISO downloaded from Sun/Oracle) with VM network mode
"NAT" and S10 networking set to DHCP (during the install). It's
working fine.

Sorry, forgot to say VMWare Player 3.
Bill

Interesting ... have you set anything in Win 7 about the two vmware
adapters ("vmnet 1" and "vmnet 8") ?
I'm using "bridge" mode and not NAT, but I've discovered that both
adapters doesn't have checked in Properties "vmware bridge protocol" ...

And about vmware tools ? aren't they mandatory for networking, right ?

Thanks
Ale

[Chris Ridd]

Post by Alessandro

Post by Bill Waddington

Post by Bill Waddington
This probably isn't much help: I'm running Win 7 64 as a host, S10 U7
(vanilla DVD ISO downloaded from Sun/Oracle) with VM network mode
"NAT" and S10 networking set to DHCP (during the install). It's
working fine.

Sorry, forgot to say VMWare Player 3.
Bill

Interesting ... have you set anything in Win 7 about the two vmware
adapters ("vmnet 1" and "vmnet 8") ?
I'm using "bridge" mode and not NAT, but I've discovered that both
adapters doesn't have checked in Properties "vmware bridge protocol" ...
And about vmware tools ? aren't they mandatory for networking, right ?

No, consider them more of an optimisation.

What network device does the VM see? It is "better" if you can get the
VM using a virtual e1000g ("Intel Pro/1000") NIC, which VMware does
support.

The <http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml> site lets you create a VMX
file using an e1000g interface, if that helps.

[Alessandro]

Post by Chris Ridd
What network device does the VM see? It is "better" if you can get the
VM using a virtual e1000g ("Intel Pro/1000") NIC, which VMware does
support.

The VM sees "e1000g0" NIC ... anyway I'm trying to enable DHCP and set
"NAT" instead of "bridged"

[Alessandro]

Post by Bill Waddington

This probably isn't much help: I'm running Win 7 64 as a host, S10 U7
(vanilla DVD ISO downloaded from Sun/Oracle) with VM network mode
"NAT" and S10 networking set to DHCP (during the install). It's
working fine.

Sorry, forgot to say VMWare Player 3.
Bill

Guys,
at the end I've succeeded: using NAT mode it works fine !

Now just to understand, it's not so clear to me how it works (even if I
know NAT principles), maybe you could help me.
We have:

- physical NIC (host-win7), 192.168.0.3 which reaches my router and internet
- adpter VMnet8 (host-win7), 192.168.182.1. Which purposes ??
- virtual NIC (guest-sol10), 192.168.182.150
- vmnet8 gateway, 192.168.182.2 used as gateway and DNS server in my
virtual machine

I can't understand the network role of "adapter VMnet8", I would have
used it as gateway and DNS server but instead I need to use
192.168.182.2 as defined in Virtual Netowrk Editor.

Thanks all,
Ale

[Andrew Owen]

Interesting. I never managed to get Solaris to work properly on VMware Fusion on MacOS X. I ended up using Virtual Box. Makes sense that Oracle's OS would work best on Oracle's VM. Nope, still can't get used to saying Oracle instead of Sun.

[Chris Ridd]

Post by Andrew Owen
Interesting. I never managed to get Solaris to work properly on VMware
Fusion on MacOS X. I ended up using Virtual Box. Makes sense that
Oracle's OS would work best on Oracle's VM. Nope, still can't get used
to saying Oracle instead of Sun.

Really? Vbox's guest additions for Solaris were pretty unusable when I
last tried, often completely screwing up guest OS updates.

OTOH VMware Fusion hosts Solaris, OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, Solaris 11
Express guests like a champ. (Not all at the same time :-)