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JaredFactley
November 18th, 2009, 10:32 PM
I've really confused myself with this one. I installed VMWare Server 2 in Karmic last night as well as the patch.

I was accesing the browser console for a few minutes until I got a message saying Firefox couldn't load the page and that it may be a problem with my internet or a firewall. But the internet worked fine for regular websites. I came back a while later and nothing would load, the VMWare console or regular websites. Same error each time. Now, the VMWare console works fine, but regular websites will not load. However I still connect to my network with no problems (as far as I can see) and the internet works on other computers on my router.

I cannot figure out what I did to cause this problem. The only thing that I can remember doing incorrectly was during the configuration of VMWare where you hit enter to accept the defaults, I got into a habit of hitting it without reading and selected eth0 as my host connection as bridged, when I really use eth2. Could this be the cause? Or any other thoughts about what could have done it?

Just to be clear, I'm saying I cannot connect to the internet in the host Ubuntu desktop, let alone my virtualized Vista.

dcstar
November 18th, 2009, 10:36 PM
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I cannot figure out what I did to cause this problem. The only thing that I can remember doing incorrectly was during the configuration of VMWare where you hit enter to accept the defaults, I got into a habit of hitting it without reading and selected eth0 as my host connection as bridged, when I really use eth2. Could this be the cause? Or any other thoughts about what could have done it?


Rerun the VMware configuration and change the network settings.

JaredFactley
November 19th, 2009, 09:16 PM
Rerun the VMware configuration and change the network settings.

Yeah, that was the first thing I tried. Didn't have any effect.
I didn't have time to figure this out, so I just used it as an excuse to do a fresh install of 9.10 like I've been meaning to do. So I don't have a solution, but no more help is needed. Thanks for the suggestion though.