Re: [SLUG] VMware on Linux question

[James Gray <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:38 am, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Sluggers,
>
> Just wondering if anyone has seen this behaviour. As per the Title,
> installed VMWare on Linux (FC4). Software starts Ok and gets to the
> point where I can power on the virtual machine. At this point the host
> machine is rebooted. I.E the power on action which is supposed to be
> that of the guest, appears to be passed to the host machine which causes
> it to re-boot, note not a graceful shutdown but as if the use had hit
> the power switch on the host machine.

I had a problem on my HP nc6230 panicing with similar symptoms.  The fix (for 
me) was to disable bridging in VMware's network configuration.  I only really 
need host networking and on the odd occasion I need Internet access from the 
guest OS, I simply enable NAT or use "stone" to proxy the guest requests on 
the host OS.

$apt-cache show stone
Description: TCP/IP packet repeater in the application layer.
 TCP/IP packet repeater in the application layer.
 It repeats TCP and UDP packets from inside to outside of a firewall, or from
 outside to inside.
 Stone supports SSL. stone can encrypt/decrypt packets with OpenSSL library.
 Stone can also be a tiny http proxy.
 POP -> APOP conversion. With stone and a mailer that does not support APOP,
 you can access to an APOP server.

HTH,

James 
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