vmware - lost in a fog of ambiguity

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 18:49, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> Folowing myself up: VMware runs its own dhcp server for the vmnet
>> interfaces.  See /etc/vmware/ for the config files (created by
>> vmware-config.pl).
>
> The vmnet? devices are added to the host (physical) machine when
> you run the configure script.  vmnet8 is the one used for NAT
> connections.  I think vmnet1 is for host-only - I usually don't
> configure that.  I don't think either would use a 172.x.x.x
> range unless you specifed that during the configure run.

That's right, but vmnet1 and vmnet8 addresses are served to the virtual 
machine by VMware's dhcp server.  I did nothing to get the following 
except run vmware-config.pl. vmnet8 is similar but also has a nat 
subdirectory with a config file in it.

I don't recall what the default subnet is if you don't configure one.  I 
selected 192.168.20.x myself.  IIRC, 172.x.x.x are the class-B nonroutable 
networks.  If so, it wouldn't be an unreasonable default choice.

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$ more /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf
#
# Configuration file for ISC 2.0b6pl1 vmnet-dhcpd operating on vmnet1.
#
# This file was automatically generated by the VMware configuration program.
# If you modify it, it will be backed up the next time you run the
# configuration program.
#
# We set domain-name-servers to make some DHCP clients happy
# (dhclient as configued in SuSE, TurboLinux, etc.).
# We also supply a domain name to make pump (Red Hat 6.x) happy.
#
allow unknown-clients;
default-lease-time 1800;                # 30 minutes
max-lease-time 7200;                    # 2 hours

subnet 192.168.30.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
     range 192.168.30.128 192.168.30.254;
     option broadcast-address 192.168.30.255;
     option domain-name-servers 192.168.30.1;
     option domain-name "localdomain";

}
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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