Networking in VMware

[orphicfireball]

I found on the "What network cards work?" thread a post on networking in vmware, but I need a little help:

 

VMWare works with a serial port / PPP connection. I used a demo of Virtual Serial Port Driver XP v5 to create a pair of serial ports. I bound one of them to Incoming Connections, no flow control, 115200. Allow directly connected users to connect without a password, give it a pair of IP addresses under TCP/IP config.

 

The other serial port I bound to the Virtual Machine. Within OSX select the Null Modem at 115200 as your modem, unselect compression and wait for dial tone. Under PPP Options, select use terminal window. Click Connect. When the terminal window appears, type in CLIENTCLIENT and hit enter (you won't see anything in the window as you type). The XP side should respond with CLIENTSERVER. Click connect. If all goes well you'll be connected via PPP.

 

Those of you using Native mode can probably do the same thing with a null modem cable.

 

There's some hacks you can do to your mdmhayes.inf to prevent needing to type in CLIENTCLIENT manually:

 

http://www.tivohelp.com/archive/tivohelp.swiki.net/45.html

 

We do the same trick for directly connected TiVos, should work fine here too.

 

The Windows part I have set up, and I have the second serial port mapped to vmware, but I don't know how to set up the modem in OSX. Could someone fill me in on the OSX configuration?

[anatharias]

under system pref.

network pref pane

if ya got modem section or anything approching that... just look toward a "modem" section .... within a dropdown menu with plenty of modem scripts

 

whish u can get something working this way..

BTW where did you find this HowTO ??

[leonking]

followed the instruction, but still

it is a no go for me.

 

The guest WinXP in vmware connects fine, but os x is not.

 

under system pref.

network pref pane

if ya got modem section or anything approching that... just look toward a "modem" section .... within a dropdown menu with plenty of modem scripts

 

whish u can get something working this way..

BTW where did you find this HowTO ??

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[orphicfireball]

under system pref.

network pref pane

if ya got modem section or anything approching that... just look toward a "modem" section .... within a dropdown menu with plenty of modem scripts

 

whish u can get something working this way..

BTW where did you find this HowTO ??

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I found it on this post: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...findpost&p=2665

 

I've been able to use the assistant to configure a modem, but I can't find where to assign it's com port, and it can't find a dial tone when I try, I wonder what I'm missing. What do I say for ISP phone number first of all, it wont let me go one without one.

[Saturn49]

I wrote that post, and was probably the first to get PPP working between OSX and the host via VMWare.

 

I know of at least two other people that have followed my "instructions" (more like a vague description) to get PPP working. I don't want to get all tied up writing a HOW-TO, but I will provide a few more details.

 

It sounds like most people are having trouble with the OSX side. So here's the low-down.

 

Shut down OSX.

Edit the virtual machine settings for that VM.

Add a serial port, use physical serial port on the host. Select the OTHER virtual serial port (not the same one you used in Windows' Incoming Connections). Mine says Serial - Using port COM8. (Windows Incoming Connections is bound to COM9 on mine)

 

 

Start the virtual machine, hit F2 right away to go into the VM's bios.

Go to Advanced, I/O Device COnfiguration and hit Enter.

 

Enable Serial Port A at base IO address 3F8 IRQ4

Disable Serial port B

 

Now save and exit (F10) and let OSX boot.

 

Now go under System Preferences and select Network. Under Network Port Configurations, put a checkmark next to builtin-serial (it should add this automatically IIRC, but hit New and add it if it doesn't exist).

 

Then select that "adapter" from show and you'll get 4 sets of options: PPP, TCP/IP, Proxies, and Modem

 

Under PPP, give the Service Provider a name like "Null Modem". Leave everything else blank.

 

Under PPP Options (click the button) check the Connect using a termianl window (command line) and click OK. Leave everything else as is.

 

Everything should stay the same under TCP/IP and Proxies

 

Under Modem, select the Modem of Null Modem 115200. Turn off Wait for dial tone before dialing.

 

Now go back to the PPP tab and click Dial Now...

 

in the window that pops up, type CLIENTCLIENT (in all uppercase, it won't show you anything) and hit enter. If all goes well, it should start spewing back some garbage. Close the window and let PPP take over.