I setup a new nic (USB) on my main linux server, I was having DHCP issues (wont get an IP) but if I set it static it works. But I only want to use it for bridged VMs so I did not set an IP. But I just wanted to confirm the nic works, and it does.
So I went through the vmware-config (is there an easier way to do this? This is a very long and tedious process) to setup a new bridged VMnet. I have 25 VM nets bridged to none so I just made one bridged to that nic.
For whatever reason, the VMs can't go out at all. They wont talk outside of that nic. I can't get an IP from the router. (I confirmed the router works, by plugging another PC into it).
Any logs I could check or other troubleshooting I can do from this point?
edit: just found these:
[2008-12-06 18:24:17.581 'NetworkProvider' 139847974512368 info] Unable to load hardware info file /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
Retrieving ip address failed for eth1
Retrieving ip address failed for pan0
Ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR failed for nic vmnet1
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet9
Ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR failed for nic vmnet8
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet7
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet6
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet5
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet4
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet3
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet25
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet24
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet23
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet22
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet21
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet20
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet19
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet18
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet17
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet16
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet15
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet14
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet13
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet12
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet11
Unable to find interface none bridged to vswitch vmnet10
eth1 is the one it should bridge to. Why is it erroring out about getting an IP? Does the nic need an IP to be bridged? I really can't see why... For my setup it can't have an IP. I don't want it to be accessible through tcp/ip for security reasons. I want the vms to be accessible but not the vm server.