I have no problem setting up Evolution email with my ISP's mail server, when I'm NOT running in VM. But when I'm using VM workstation, with xp host, gutsy guest, nat. Evolution cant find my ISP's email server, when I'm setting up my email account. Do I have to open a port for Evolution? or provide an IP address ? Tia!
I don't see any menu in VM workstation with the dir structure "/etc/network/interfaces" ? If I type "ifconfig" into the terminal window within my guest os Gutsy I get the following! eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:EA:01: DC inet addr:192.168.153.130 Bcast:192.168.153.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feea:1dc/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1558 (1.5 KB) TX bytes:6688 (6.5 KB) Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
falko: I was just reading your Tutorial: Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop It occurred to me that maybe I should have used BRIDGE instead NAT, when I was making my VM. Would I have avoided my current Evolution/ISP problem by making that change? p.s. thanks for your great tutorials
That worked! to enable Evolution, BUT as a result I lost access to my XP Host network. to sum up: With "Bridged" I gain Mail access via my ISP , BUT I lose my XP network. With "Nat" I lose Mail access via my ISP, But I gain my XP network. So now either way one or the other needs to be configured. Which is the easiest? Is there a small HOW to?