Thanks JGT, I have kept both machines on an isolated network plus I am unable to get the TCP/IP stack working using the native OS driver on the virtual machine anyway due to this EOF issue with the...
Thank you JGT for your interest, I am also receiving the same behavior when trying to reconfigure the TCP /IP address for a native network driver (HW AMD PCNet-PCI Adapter)
Thank you Don for your prompt reply, no I have not made any backup copies or duplicates of the source files. As attached is a picture of the file space.c with the date going back to Dec 2007.