vista+vmware problem

skanky · 28 Jul 2007 at 08:24

have a problem with one of my vista testbed machines at work, i've installed vmware on it and it adds "VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1/8" adapters, however it puts it into "unidentified network" and automatically sets the network type to public.

it resets it to public when resuming or reboot and i have to reset that to private everytime.

skanky · 28 Jul 2007 at 10:19

i think i'm using NAT, is bridged the one where it assigns its own IP to the vm? if i have 2 vms on a machine active with bridged, i assume it assigns a unique mac/ip to each one?

skanky · 31 Jul 2007 at 09:10

gave up and set the windows firewall for the public profile to allow outbound connections (which is default) --hardly ideal though :/

skanky · 31 Jul 2007 at 11:39

hmm a side effect i've just noticed is that it doesnt let me windows update even with the public firewall profile set to the same as private.

i get an 8024402c error. tried renaming softwaredistribution folder but same thing. had to disable "network connection 3/4" which is the vmnet1/8 adapter and it now is able to find updates but i now get a 80070005 error.

******* vmware! :/

edit: updating from windows defender gets me 0x80070643.

edit2: never mind, found out what it is, its my mcafee av's protection rules which was stopping it: "prevent svchost from executing non windows executables"