vmythguy, >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. This is what I do. I run F8 on a Dell D620 laptop, and vmware XP clients. With the latest B43 modules with Network Manager, I don't have any network problems (none that I have noticed). I do cringe if any of these modules are updated, and really don't like the latest vpnc client as the behavior has changed. I also have problems with VMWare running on the latest kernel with a Dual Core processor - the linux client machine's clocks do not run at the same speed - usually a lot slower in my case. Windows XP clients will "catch-up" every few minutes, so that hasn't really been a problem. Broadcom 4311 chipset for networking I used to have a Dell D610 that had only a single core processor. I didn't have any of these problems, though wireless networking (Broadcom 4318 chipset - painful) at first would only work with ndiswrapper at first with F7. The Broadcom 4318 worked great with F8 using the B43 modules once I downloaded the correct firmware files. >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? You may have to ask this at the VMWare forums or open a support ticket there. I can give you my opinion though. Simply - No. You can setup several networking options - host, bridged, nat - but the client always relies on the host. (bridged seems to be the most common setup as you use the host card through the host, and the host creates a virutal default card type for the client to use.) If you cant get networking working with Linux as the host, then you will never have networking available to any client that you try to run. The alternative is to run Windows as a host and linux as a client - this will almost always work, but for some reason, I could never set my machine up this way. Hope this helps, Ken
