[LARTC] Ubuntu feisty: trouble with vmware-player host-guest

[LARTC] Ubuntu feisty: trouble with vmware-player host-guest

[Marco Gaiarin]

I post here this 'user' triuble because i suppose it came from some
strange kernel (mis)configuration.

I've just upgrade from edgy to feisty, and the communication between
guest and host in bridge mode stop working.
And in a rather, at least for me, strange way.

I can ping from host to guest:

	root@host:~# ping guest
	PING guest (10.5.2.120) 56(84) bytes of data.
	64 bytes from guest (10.5.2.120): icmp_seq=1 ttl\x128 	time=3.00 ms
	64 bytes from guest (10.5.2.120): icmp_seq=2 ttl\x128 time=0.242 ms
	64 bytes from guest (10.5.2.120): icmp_seq=3 ttl\x128 time=0.224 ms

	--- guest ping statistics ---
	3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
	rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.224/1.158/3.008/1.308 ms

and also from guest to host (guest are Windows XP, trust me please ;).

But i cannot access the host samba share from guest, nor access the ssh
server of host from guest, nor access the TightVNC server of the guest
from the host.

Eg, for putty:

	root@host:~# tcpdump -i eth0 host guest and port ssh
	tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
	listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
	17:44:19.144412 IP guest.1153 > host.ssh: F 2625691448:2625691448(0) ack 2930621145 win 64512
	17:44:19.144932 IP host.ssh > guest.1153: F 39:39(0) ack 1 win 5840
	17:44:19.146412 IP guest.1153 > host.ssh: . ack 1 win 64512 <nop,nop,sack 1 {39:40}>
	17:44:29.171327 IP guest.1154 > host.ssh: S 1530035078:1530035078(0) win 64512 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK>
	17:44:29.171366 IP host.ssh > guest.1154: S 3017660595:3017660595(0) ack 1530035079 win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK>
	17:44:29.171620 IP guest.1154 > host.ssh: . ack 1 win 64512
	17:44:29.194460 IP host.ssh > guest.1154: P 1:39(38) ack 1 win 5840
	17:44:32.196358 IP host.ssh > guest.1154: P 1:39(38) ack 1 win 5840
	17:44:38.196078 IP host.ssh > guest.1154: P 1:39(38) ack 1 win 5840
	17:44:50.195331 IP host.ssh > guest.1154: P 1:39(38) ack 1 win 5840


someone can point me at least to the right plase to debug this? ;)

See also the ubuntu bug:

	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vmware-player/+bug/96445


Many tanks.

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Re: [LARTC] Ubuntu feisty: trouble with vmware-player host-guest

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Stephen Hemminger
  In chel di` si favelave...

> Sorry, vmware is proprietary. Please reproduce problem with a stock kernel.org
> kernel. This is not a vendor support list.

I only supposed that was not some vmware trouble, or at least not all,
because as you have seen some traffic passes (ping, at least).

Indeed vmware-player are propietary, i'm only seeking some info to
debug better this.


Only for list reference, i've solved the puzzle.
Simply when i've installed the box the first time i've put on it
another PCI ethernet card because the integrated (RTL Giga) was not
supported, and i've forgot completely that afterwards.

Now i've removed the PCI addon card, enabled the integrated one,
restate a bit the network configuration and now all the stuff works.

Boh.

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