I don't want vmnet1! How do I stop it from loading?

[J Maton]

I have rerun the vmware-config script a few times and I don't chose the
host-only option, yet the vmnet1 continues to load after I run
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware restart

How can I prevent this from starting up? It's also starting the dhcpd
thing which I believe is what is screwing up my bridged networking for my
win98 guest (which is set to use bridged only.)

I'm running vmware 2.0.3-799 under a Linux kernel 2.4.2.

Thanks in advance, this doesn't seem like it should be a difficult
thing...

[Tim]

In article <99vso6$u4t$1...@london.vmware.com>, "J Maton" <jma...@unf.edu>
wrote:

I was just about to ask the same question. Since I have added a router I
want to use only the bridged networking. How do we reconfigure vmware to
not start the host-only networking? The vmware-config.pl does not work
and I have only bridged configured in the guest.

--
Tim Ryan
email: tr...@nc.rr.com

[Petr Vandrovec]

Tim wrote:
> >
> > I'm running vmware 2.0.3-799 under a Linux kernel 2.4.2.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, this doesn't seem like it should be a difficult
> > thing...
>
> I was just about to ask the same question. Since I have added a router I
> want to use only the bridged networking. How do we reconfigure vmware to
> not start the host-only networking? The vmware-config.pl does not work
> and I have only bridged configured in the guest.

What you mean with 'vmware-config.pl' does not work? Just answer 'no'
for
accessing host filesystem and 'no' for host-only networking and it will
not load vmnet1 next time. I'm 100% sure if you used .tar.gz. If you
used
.rpm, you are on your own. But if your system is pure RedHat, then it
should work too.
Petr

[Bob G]

"Petr Vandrovec" <vand...@vc.cvut.cz> wrote in message
news:3AC3D6E9...@vc.cvut.cz...
> [...]

> What you mean with 'vmware-config.pl' does not work? Just answer 'no'
> for accessing host filesystem and 'no' for host-only networking and it
will
> not load vmnet1 next time. I'm 100% sure if you used .tar.gz. If you
> used .rpm, you are on your own. But if your system is pure RedHat, then it
> should work too.

I found that I had to edit the /etc/vmware/locations file by hand to get rid
of all vmnet1 references once it had been added (RedHat 6.2 system using
.rpm). I ran vmware-config.pl, answered "no" to host-only and filesystem
access questions, but found that I still had to edit the locations file to
get rid of the remaining entries.

I subsequently created a separate script to create additional bridged and
host-only interfaces, and have found that seems to work best.

- Bob