Wierd VMWare behavior

[Matthew Gillen]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> When I am at home connected either to wireless or wired static IP or
> dhcp, I can log into my laptop (Ubuntu 7.04) as myself, run VMWare and
> open (eg. power on) the Windows virtual machine. But, when I am at work
> wired dhcp I get a permission violation. When I log in as my wife, the
> VM just hangs. 
> 
> The only difference is the network. 

Probably work restricts dhcp to a few known MAC addresses, and the "made up"
mac address that vmware uses isn't allowed.  Using NAT as Kristian suggested
should allow you to work around your work environment (and it will work just
as well at home).

Matt

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