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VMWare player : Ubuntu 10.04 guest on Win 7 host - network not working

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http://serverfault.com – I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit desktop version) on VMWare player over Windows 7 host (64 bit). I am unable to access network. apt-get fails and I am unable to browse the internet. I tried re-installing VMWare tools..it didn't help. I am new to Virtualization and networking. Can someone please help me out? (HowTos)

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Submitted by grtyyu on 01/03/2012 – Made popular on 01/03/2012

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Hello guys.

So I just installed Backtrack 5r3 gnome on Vmware Player.

I am running Ubuntu Linux image in VMWare. The host is Windows XP.

There are two network adapters configured in VMWare - one is host-only and the other is bridged. Everything works fine as long as the host does not lose network connectivity.

If the host loses connectivity (even briefly) and then re-acquires it, my bridged adapter in VMWare is still unable to get an IP address.

I am having trouble with VMware Player 4.0.3 for Linux. I am trying to run a linux virtual machine guest (from the linux host), but am unable to successfully get an IP address on the guest with bridge networking. I do have an internet connection and I already ran vmware-netcfg and changed the bridge mode from "Automatic" to my sepcific network card.

I have ubuntu running as a guest in vmware player. I have installed the vmware tools, and everything was going smoothly. I was able to copy paste texts between host & guest. But yesterday I tried with lubuntu and played around a bit with display managers. But suddenly copy pasting texts between host and guest is not working. I have re-installed vmware tools.

After a lot of troubleshooting I am still unable to get Internet working on ubuntu 12.04 installed on my VMware Player.

I tried commenting out dns=dnsmasq. ifconfig returns: eth0 and lo with the ipaddress and other information.

I don't know what is wrong. Anyone could help me or any other commands or files I should change?

My network:

192.168.2.2 (computer) 255.255.255.0 (mask) 192.168.2.254 (gateway)

The VMplayer is:

192.168.233.129 (ip) 255.255.255.0 (mask) 192.168.233.255(bcast)

It's obvious the player can't be access from other systems because of the wrong network settings. However, I am not sure as to how to change that.

I just installed Slackware 14.0. I installed vmware player using this command:

sh VMware-$NAME-$VERSION.bundle --console --ignore-errors

Which I found from this website:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/installation-of-vmw...

That allowed me to install a guest version of Windows XP (microcontroller programming).

I'm having trouble getting VMWare to enable shared folders between the host and vm as every time I try to enable it, I get the following error dialog:

VMWare Player Unable to update run-time folder sharing status: Unknown error.

I'm running ubuntu 12.04 on the VM.

I installed VMware Player on my Windows 7 PC. Now I downloaded ubuntu (ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso) software from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop .

I installed ubuntu via the instruction at http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/11287/how-to-run-ubuntu-in-windows-7-with... .

It is version Ubuntu 12.10.