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| 1189780 | 2011-03-27 05:12:00 | Hey, I've got a few VMs set up in VMWare Workstation and what I want to do is put them on 2 different networks, one can stay on the same network as the host. So if VM A is on 10.1.1.0/24 and VM B is on 192.168.1.0/24, how can I get them to be able to communicate? Thanks for any help. |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1189781 | 2011-03-27 06:19:00 | You need a router to route traffic between the two networks. Something like Freesco would be ideal. Set up a VM with no HDD & 16MB ram & as many network interfaces as required and boot it from the floppy image. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1189782 | 2011-03-27 08:02:00 | Yea I know I need a router but was hoping VMWare had something built in to do this. Thats cool, I'll have a play with Freesco, thanks! | WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1189783 | 2011-03-27 08:05:00 | thanks fred_fish didnt even know that freesco existed im gna give it a crack | jwin (16186) | ||
| 1189784 | 2011-03-28 00:45:00 | I managed to get this to work as required, here is how I did it in case anyone else comes across this. Freesco didn't want to install properly, I think because my host is 64bit and the whole floppy disk thing is pretty fiddly. But I found Vyatta (http://www.vyatta.com/) which does exactly what I needed and is a bit easier to set up, since its an ISO download. |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1189785 | 2011-03-28 01:11:00 | SHame you dont just have a free box to use as a host, that way you could use VMware ESXi or Xen, and build vSwitches to connect your VM's | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1189786 | 2011-03-28 08:04:00 | SHame you dont just have a free box to use as a host, that way you could use VMware ESXi or Xen, and build vSwitches to connect your VM's haha yeah I know, no biggie though, this is just for testing. It's actually been pretty cool playing around with Vyatta. |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1189787 | 2011-03-28 20:33:00 | It's actually been pretty cool playing around with Vyatta.It's certainly a pretty good system; these days Vyatta is generally my first choice if I need a general-purpose router for anything. It also supports IPv6 out of the box :thumbs:. |
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