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rswart_77683
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Mar 01, 2010

VMWare Player tip

Hi,

 

 

I ran into some issues with running on VMWare Player. It turned out that in my (default) config there is no second host-only interface.

 

 

My player had the following default config:

 

 

VMnet0 --> bridged

 

VMnet1 --> host-only

 

VMnet8 --> NAT

 

 

There used to be the Virtual Network Editor (vmnetcfg.exe) but it is not installed anymore with version 3. You can install it manually by extracting it from the install file.

 

 

VMware-player-3.0.1-227600.exe /e .\vmwareextract

 

 

Open network.cab and copy vmnetcfg.exe to the root of your player install. You now have a nice graphical editor for your virtual network.

 

 

Cheers,

 

 

Richard
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  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
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    Mar 01, 2010
    Nice Tip! That will be very useful for the player users out there that would rather not edit configuration files.
  • pmcgleenon_7274's avatar
    pmcgleenon_7274
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    Mar 03, 2010
    looks like a nice tip!

     

     

    When I tried running vmnetcfg.exe I got the message "sigc-2.0.dll was not found". I had a poke around but didn't find it in the extracted player files
  • rswart_77683's avatar
    rswart_77683
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    Mar 05, 2010
    I have it in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player (running on Vista) after default install, so I did not need to put it there manually.