On Jan 20, 2008 5:42 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:38:53 pm vamythguy wrote: > >> I want to switch my laptop over to linux, but still plan to run an XP > >> virtual host. My laptop has a broadcom wireless card which seems to be > >> troublesome. It seems that the reverse config (windows host, linux guest) > >> would allow the linux virtual to hit the net via nat through the windows > >> master. Is the reverse possible, for the windows guest to provide net > >> services to the linux master? > > > > Try NAT networking. VMWare has a problem with the new kernels and wireless. > > I can't (yet) speak for the latest kernels. I have an XP VM running on > my FC6 laptop. It can access the "net" pretty well, and active > connections can be made to come back to it via a current outgoing > connection, but I've had trouble accessing it directly except from the > hosting laptop on its VM wetwork, even though routing is supposedly set > up correctly (ip_forward and subnet routes) on the other networked > machines. I'm not sure if the VMWare network is NATing on my laptop or not. > > -- > Kevin J. Cummings Many VMware users run Fedora and other linux distributions as a guest on Windows. Browse topics on VMware's user forums and get a feel for the problems being encountered.
