Hi, On 27/02/12 2:17 PM, Ian Stewart wrote: > > Hello, > > I am working on setting up a small lab of PacketFence Zen > for a school project. I am going to run the VM on a host box that is > running Windows Server 2008 (running ZEN on VMWare Player) and connect > it to a Cisco 3550 switch. I am kinda new to the VMware. I understand > how the the virtual interfaces are to be configured, but I am not sure > what IP to give my physical Ethernet port (the one on my physical > machine) since it is a trunk link on the connecting switch port? (Which > subnet should it be in? /DHCP or Static assigned?) Any help would be > greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Others might correct me as I'm not the Windows nor the virtualization "go to guy" but I'll try an answer. You should probably have VLAN interfaces created on your Windows server. This is a per network card driver configuration (unless it changed with Win2008) and several cards don't allow you to do that. Otherwise I don't see how you will be able to expose the proper interfaces to the VMWare Player and I'm pretty sure VMWare Player doesn't support trunk ports. Another thing to try: trunks port have a native VLAN (as per configuration in your switch, default on Cisco is 1), give yourself an IP in that VLAN but I don't think it'll resolve the points I raised above but you can always try. My own very personal suggestion: don't use Windows as your host ;). I think the minimal ESX is free: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html Regards, -- Olivier Bilodeau [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 *115 :: www.inverse.ca Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence (www.packetfence.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
