vmware host-only networks

[Yuandan Zhang]

I have no experience on multiple host-only networks. just guess if you 
need to join the guest PCs to a single group?

Good luck
Yuandan

Coert Waagmeester wrote:

>hi all FCers!
>
>I use VMware Workstation 4.5.2 on Fedora Core 3
>It works fine after I cp -a all the /dev/vm* to /etc/udev/devices
>to keep the dev entries in /dev during system restarts
>
>I created 3 different host-only networks, vmnet1, vmnet3, vmnet4
>The clustering solution I am setting up in the two vms require at least
>3 'physically' different networks. Thats why I created the host-onlys.
>
>In each VM they get vmnet-dhcpd leases for all 3 adapters, but those IPs
>are exactly the same on both VMs!!! They can ping, ftp, etc the host,
>but not each other, even when I give them different statics.
>
>What am i doing wrong?
>
>By the way, this is one kernel message that I saw, it looks suspicious,
>does it have to do with my problem?
>
>May 18 18:25:18 coertw wait_for_sysfs[5837]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev
>039) needs an update to handle the device '/class/net/vmnet1' properly
>(no device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs
>to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-
>devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>May 18 18:25:18 coertw wait_for_sysfs[5849]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev
>039) needs an update to handle the device '/class/net/vmnet4' properly
>(no device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs
>to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-
>devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>May 18 18:25:18 coertw wait_for_sysfs[5857]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev
>039) needs an update to handle the device '/class/net/vmnet3' properly
>(no device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs
>to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-
>devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>Kind regards,
>Coert
>
>P.S. Sorry for the long message :)
>
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