Re: ipchains and vmware
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Robert Norris wrote:
> > Can I just use IP-Masquerading with ipchains to allow my vmware virtual
> > machines to access the internet?
>
> You certainly can. Enable the 'host-only networking option' of vmware,
> which will create an interface called 'vmnet1'. Give this an IP address like
> 192.168.1.1 (or whatever). Set up networking for your virtual machine, and
> set 192.168.1.1 as its gateway. Then just set up the appropriate
> ipfwadm/ipchains rules and you're away.
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
Thanks Rob, it's working like a champ. The one problem I had was that I
hadn't remembered about setting up either a DNS or adding to my /etc/hosts
file. But, once I did that, everything worked swimmingly.
--
-bob
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