VMWare
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 06:54:27 UTC 2006
On 07/07/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Yes, they are OT...but what the heck.
Heh, thanks!
> Shall I assume you are running VMWare Workstation 5.5.1 or what? VMWare
> is the name of the company. Probably a good idea if you name the product.
Er, sorry for not being specific. I'm running the Player only.
> Windows is your guest OS, right?
Yes. XP Home Edition.
> > 1) How do I connect the Windows installation in VMWare to the internet?
>
> Depends on your network situation. Probably you will find defining your
> ethernet connection as being type "NAT" is best and use the default
> setting under Windows.
Thanks. I'm not sure what I did, exactly, but it's now funcitoning.
> > 2) How do I connect USB devices to Windows?
>
> That becomes a bit tricky at times. I don't do it that much. The issue
> is that the host OS tends to grab the USB device and then you have to
> rmmod to release it. That doesn't always work.
Er, ok, thanks. I'll google rmmod and see where that takes me.
> > 3) How do I read from CD in Windows?
>
> Disable automounting of CD's on the host and you will simply be able to
> connect your CD drive to the guest OS.
Changed "cdrom-image" to "cdrom-raw" in the config file and the CD
drive now works.
> I've no idea of what you've found about python scripts. Been using
> VMWare workstation for 4 years and never saw anything of the sort.
>
> But, the VMWare forums are the best place to talk about VMWware specific
> stuff.
Will post there. I've been reading the forums a bit. Now that I've
only the USB to fix, I just may be able to squeeze by.
Thanks.
Dotan Cohen
http://simplesniff.com
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