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OK, now I'm pulling my hair out. I deleted the working VM that I had, in order to pursue some different options, but now I'm determined to find a way to get this option working. I'm using VM Workstation 12, which has a configuration equivalent to Workstation 8.x that seems to work wonderfully well for installing OpenServer 5.0.6, even though according to Xinuos that setup is "not supported". I know that I had it working before, and it was connected to my LAN because I could remote in using a program called ICE.TCP which works with my operating legacy hardware server.


Now the problem is that when I install 5.0.6 using the option to "Auto-detect) when it comes to selecting the network adapter, it does not work after the software is finished installing. I can't think of anything different that I did before when I got it to work, but I must have. In the VM settings for Workstation, I have it set to used "Bridged" networking, which should allow the VM to have a separate IP address from the host, which is what I want.



The actual NIC in the Host is an Intel 82579V built-in the MB. The "Auto-detect" feature of the OS installation selects an AMD PCNet-PCI adapter with Bus-Dev-Func of 2:0:0. I cannot think of anything else I would have done the first time, so I'm wondering if I did something after installation that got the VM connected to my LAN. The Windows setting for the NIC is for static IP of 192.168.40.215, and when I assign an IP to the OS in VM I give it 192.168.40.216. After I finish the installation I am unable to ping to or from the OS 5.0.6 VM. I do have the host entry in my local DNS server for the VM IP and machine name.



Can anyone point me in the direction of what I might be missing? I KNOW it was working with my other VM, before I trashed it. Any help is appreciated.

Have we had this conversation before:

Creating a VM

SCO auto-detecting AMD PCNet-PCI adapter is correct.

Did you configure that virtual NIC when prep'ing??

Ref: You never know: SCO Openserver 5.0.7 P2V

Well, I've made some progress but still not totally solved. My two SCO machines I will call now the "physical" and the "VM". At this point I can ping from any machine on the LAN to both the physical and the VM IP addresses or machine names. From the physical machine, I can ping out to any machine on the LAN by either IP address or machine name, which would mean that it is correctly finding my local DNS server for resolution. However, from the VM I cannot ping out to any other machine using either the IP address or machine name. All I get is a "host down" message.


I was unaware that anything needed to be done with the NIC settings in the Host Windows PC in order to use the VM "bridge" mode - please let me know if this is my problem and what I need to do.


I also read somewhere that there is a "route" file in the /etc directory, but it's binary so I have no idea if that is configured correctly in the VM. When I look at the Network settings in scoadmin everything appears to be correct, with similar settings to the physical machine.


Any help as to what I am missing will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Edit to add: In the Virtual NIC settings for the VM I saw a checkbox that says "Replicate physical network connection state" that was not checked. I tried shutting down the VM and checking that box. I restarted and it still won't ping out - so that was not the problem. I also forgot to mention that I entered the Gateway IP and the primary and secondary DNS IPs at system installation for the VM. Still not sure what the problem is.

Hmmmmm........need to gather some information!

Please post the ip address of the physical system and the ip address of the VM system.

Login to the VM system...........

What are the locally configured hosts? Please post the output of:

Code:

# cat /etc/hosts

What net adapters does the VM machine think it has? Please post the output of:

Code:

# ifconfig -a

What routing does the VM system think it has? Please post the output of:

Code:

# netstat -r

That lot ought to tell us something.

There are probably many was to do this sort of thing, however if you are looking at cloning/virtualising a server, I would point you to something like Storix although there are other products like Christie clone manager etc. I'm not sure if it will support your OS though, you would need to check.

If you just have a new server and need to get all sorts of (hopefully small) configuration files across, then you could:
Always be careful of what you overwrite else the receiving server may become unusable of you overwrite the wrong things.



Looking at the issue of network connectivity, it may come down to what network adapter you have assigned to the VM. Do you have a default router configured that you can get to and get to other machines with for both the source and target? Perhaps your netmask is wrong for your routing. The output requested by hicksd8 would be useful to narrow this down.



Kind regards,
Robin

IP of physical machine is: 192.168.40.217
IP of VM is: 192.168.40.216


I am attaching a screenshot of the output for the three commands suggested above, and I'm noticing there is nothing in my routing table in the VM. That's probably the problem? How do I fix?


Thanks,