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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:41:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
To:        Michael Class <michael.class@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware3 and bridges networking not working
Message-ID:  <20030419123929.C345@atlas.home>
In-Reply-To: <20030419114608.B2580@localhost>
References:  <20030419114608.B2580@localhost>

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On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Michael Class wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> first of all thank you for the vmware3 port!
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get networking to work inside a vmware
> machine. I am running a (very) current 5.0-current SMP system
> and am getting the folloing message during the startup of the
> vmware engine:
>
> Could not query bridging status on device /dev/vmnet0.
> Please update your vmnet driver.
>
> The modules are loaded:
>
> pc-micha:~> kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   11 0xc0100000 4374b4   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0538000 42314    acpi.ko
>  3    1 0xc64a1000 2000     rtc.ko
>  4    1 0xc64b6000 8000     vmmon_smp.ko
>  5    1 0xc68ad000 2000     vmnet.ko
>  6    1 0xc6ad1000 15000    mga.ko
>
> Any hints of what to try? Should it work?

If vmware3 is anything like vmware2, it should be configured for
"host only" networking when using bridging on FreeBSD.

   $.02,
   /Mikko


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