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.

marc2003 · 28 Jul 2007 at 08:56

do you use bridged mode networking in your vm's? if you do, then just delete those virtual adapters in vmware network config util.

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?

marc2003 · 28 Jul 2007 at 10:25

nope, bridged is where you use an ip from your real network, the same range as your host pc. you can set it manually in your guest or it will pick one up from your router/dhcp server just like a real pc would (not the builtin vmware dhcp). using this mode means you can delete the virtual adapters and also disable the vmware dhcp and nat services.

but upon reading your post properly, maybe this isn't ideal as you're at work? as for the original problem, i don't know.... sorry....

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"