Mai6Written by:Martin
06.05.2008 11:05  In my daily work I use VMWare Workstation (6.0.2 at the moment), because it makes it much more easy to switch between various SwyxWare versions*). For a long time I had the problem that sometimes a Windows guest in VMWare reports an IP address conflict after resuming. Our IT guys told me a long time ago, that proper releasing and leasing of IP addresses via DHCP works much better with VMWare than in Microsoft Virtual PC. On my system it seem to not work at all. In my daily work I use VMWare Workstation (6.0.2 at the moment), because it makes it much more easy to switch between various SwyxWare versions*). For a long time I had the problem that sometimes a Windows guest in VMWare reports an IP address conflict after resuming. Our IT guys told me a long time ago, that proper releasing and leasing of IP addresses via DHCP works much better with VMWare than in Microsoft Virtual PC. On my system it seem to not work at all. The reason are these configuration options: 
The Power Controls configuration allows for two values for each option, e.g. the "pause button" control can be set to The important difference is that Support guest let's the VMWare Tools on the guest run the appropriate script which release the IP-Address. Same for the "Play" control. That's far from intuitive. At least it's mentioned in the help file. But who reads documentation anyway  *) This is not officially supported. You will get problems if you try that in a production environment. Tags: |