VMWare as a networking alternative

[vamythguy]

On Jan 20, 2008 9:24 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2008 5:42 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>
> wrote:
> > Ben Kevan wrote:
> > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:38:53 pm vamythguy wrote:
> > >> I want to switch my laptop over to linux, but still plan to run an XP
> > >> virtual host.  My laptop has a broadcom wireless card which seems to
> be
> > >> troublesome.  It seems that the reverse config (windows host, linux
> guest)
> > >> would allow the linux virtual to hit the net via nat through the
> windows
> > >> master.  Is the reverse possible, for the windows guest to provide
> net
> > >> services to the linux master?
> > >
> > > Try NAT networking. VMWare has a problem with the new kernels and
> wireless.
> >
> > I can't (yet) speak for the latest kernels.  I have an XP VM running on
> > my FC6 laptop.  It can access the "net" pretty well, and active
> > connections can be made to come back to it via a current outgoing
> > connection, but I've had trouble accessing it directly except from the
> > hosting laptop on its VM wetwork, even though routing is supposedly set
> > up correctly (ip_forward and subnet routes) on the other networked
> > machines.  I'm not sure if the VMWare network is NATing on my laptop or
> not.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin J. Cummings
>
> Many VMware users run Fedora and other linux distributions as a guest
> on Windows. Browse topics on VMware's user forums and get a feel for
> the problems being encountered.
>
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I actually wanted to go the other way and guest a windows install on a linux
host but, somehow, use that windows guest to get me around linux wireless
issues.
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