On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:41 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get a virtual Windows machine to see my HDHomeRun TV > tuner, but it fails. I think the problem is that, while the host has an > IP address set up in my router, the guest Windows machine does not. The > Windows machine can surf the web and see other devices on the network > (mine and the internet), but the HDHomeRun device requires that the > machine it is on have an IP address. > If the guest OS is able to access the network, it already has an IP address. It pretty much can't talk to anything else on the network without one (other than broadcast type stuff). > I could set up an IP address for the Windows machine if it had a MAC > address or some other way to identify it to the router. Any suggestions? > It has a MAC address too. Go to Start and Run, put in cmd and press Enter. Then type ipconfig /all and press enter. (These steps may vary slightly based on which version of Windows you're running) Windows refers to a MAC address as a "physical address" and uses dashes instead of colons to separate the digits. What happens when you try to access your HDHomeRun tuner from the Windows VM guest? -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
