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Vista Home Premium, VPC2007, Network problems

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 09/20/2008
From: kwaka <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Hi I would welcome some advice please.

I have been happily running a VA LAMP server on VPC 2007 on Windows XP
Home for web development for some time.

I have just bought a Dell Inspiron with Vista Home Premium and want to
get the set-up working again, but have had constant network related
problems.

The LAMP server when starting up would not see the network so I could
not connect to it, and ifconfig showed that eth0 couldn't see the
network. Anyway back on to Windows stuff. I decided to run up a
Windows XP image and again had the same problems... it couldn't see
the network. An ipconfig showed that it hasn't picked up an ipaddress
and an ipconfig /renew timed out.

I then decided to try using Vmware, which had some success and then
the images developed the same problems.

I have Kaspersky firewall and anti virus and I've tried disabling that
which makes no difference.
I've run Virtual PC as an Administrator again to no avail.

So it seems to be to do with Vista or VPC.
What am I missing?

Thanks for any help.
Dave

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Re: Vista Home Premium, VPC2007, Network problems

Sent: 09/21/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:00:53 -0700 (PDT), kwaka
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

How was this guest configured regarding the network adapters?

How did you go about getting the setup "working again"? Did you:
- Install VPC2007 on the new laptop?
- Copy the vhd file over from the old host PC?
- Create a new guest in the new laptop and point it to the copied vhd
file?
- Set the guest networking to use the host's network adapter?

This sounds like a network config issue, but we need to know the above
to make valid advice. There could be several items:
- You have not set the new guest to use the host's NIC
- The network drivers on the new laptop are not up-to-date

By the way, what version of Vista are you using on the host laptop?
(x64 or x86).
And how is the host PC getting its network config? From a *wired* LAN
behind a DSL router/dhcp server???? If you use WiFi, then this might
be the root cause of your problem....

Does not matter....

I think that you need updated network drivers for your new laptop.
They are known to be causing connectivity problems if they are not the
absolute most recent ones.
And if you use WiFi, try switching to wired Ethernet instead.

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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>I have been happily running a VA LAMP server on VPC 2007 on Windows XP
>Home for web development for some time.
>I have just bought a Dell Inspiron with Vista Home Premium and want to
>get the set-up working again, but have had constant network related
>problems.
>The LAMP server when starting up would not see the network so I could
>not connect to it, and ifconfig showed that eth0 couldn't see the
>network. Anyway back on to Windows stuff. I decided to run up a
>Windows XP image and again had the same problems... it couldn't see
>the network. An ipconfig showed that it hasn't picked up an ipaddress
>and an ipconfig /renew timed out.
>I then decided to try using Vmware, which had some success and then
>the images developed the same problems.
>
>I have Kaspersky firewall and anti virus and I've tried disabling that
>which makes no difference.
>I've run Virtual PC as an Administrator again to no avail.
>So it seems to be to do with Vista or VPC.
>What am I missing?

Re: Vista Home Premium, VPC2007, Network problems

Sent: 09/21/2008
From: kwaka <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Sep 20, 11:10=A0pm, Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
<snip>

Thanks Bo.
After reading your response it dawned on me what the problems was and
I'm afraid to say that it was user error! ;-)
In the network settings for the VPC it had defaulted to the wired NIC.
For some reason I had assumed that this was the emulation for the
guest OS in the VPC! I do use a wireless connection and normally
disable the wired NIC so previously it had defaulted to the wireless
one and just worked.
Anyway it's all great now.
Thanks for the input much appreciated.

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>
> I think that you need updated network drivers for your new laptop.
> They are known to be causing connectivity problems if they are not the
> absolute most recent ones.
> And if you use WiFi, try switching to wired Ethernet instead.
>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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