Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.2 on VMware server 2.0

Hello Atul.

I have a new Laptop and trying to ping the Guest OS from the Main OS which is Windows Vista.I am unable to ping this machine even though i have given the type as NAT.U see any reason..And yes when i “try bridged network and start the Virtual Machine it gives me an error as eth0 may be down on ur machine and ur machine may not be able to communicate to other machines on the network”..DO u feel network drivers need to be installed?

Rgs
MM

MM, Is your laptop connected to any router ? (If not try connecting to router) also try putting vista & guest O.S. on DHCP.

What is IP of vista & IP of linux guest o.s. ?

Hello Atul

Some progress..Now i am able to ping the Guest OS from Host OS(Windows Vista) but i m not able to ping Host OS from Guest OS.

This is ipconfig of Host OS
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Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::913:b3db:2b2b:2c6e%32
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.44.110
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d0f6:27bc:8491:7900%21
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::b068:6087:1d7:d5a2%23
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.159.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

This is ifconfig of GUest OS

192.168.159.128

When i ping the above from Host OS

C:\>PING 192.168.159.128

Pinging 192.168.159.128 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.159.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.159.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.159.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.159.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.159.128:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

But the other way from Guest to Host does not work…Please help me resolve this

MM,
What you did to fix you connection from Host O.S. (windows) to Guest O.S. (Linux) ?

any reason for connecting from Guest O.S. to Host O.S. ?

If you can connect from host O.S. to guest O.S. they transfer oracle files via ssh or scp (or start ftp on linux and ftp files from windows to linux)

Hello Atul,

I did manage to install OEL as guest OS in VMware. However, I am not able to increase OEL screen resolution beyond 800×600. Do you have any idea as to what might be the reason ?
Also, I am able to ping Guest OS from Host (Windows Vista). But when I try to FTP (from Host) to guest, using its IP address, it says “Connection Refused”. Can you help me in establishing FTP access to Guest OS ?
I was planning to use FTP to transfer Oracle files to guest OS for installation.

Thanks

Hi Narender,

You can use Winscp to transfer file from host os to guest os. Winscp uses ssh. Make sure the guest os ip is in the host os etc/hosts file (in windows, the location is C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)

I am trying to play around with Oracle Enterprise Linux under a VMWare Server 2.0 machine and I can install it just fine but when the system reboots after installation it hangs at “Starting udev:”

Under VirtualBox it doesn’t hang.

*shrug*

Any idea why it might be hanging at the udev detection?

does anybody know how to increase display resolution of Oracle Linux on VMware workstation, it is too tiny. I have VMware tools intalled, manually changed xorg.conf… none of them worked.

appreciate any suggestion.

For the first step above (clicking on Console -> Open in New Window), I didn’t have that option available on the menu. I needed to install a plugin for my browser.

To do that, I clicked on the virtual machine in the inventory window (left window), and then the console tab (right window). On that console page was a link to install the plugin.

The link launched a VMWare installer for the plugin, but note that it didn’t work in my Chrome window. I switched to IE and installed the plugin in that browser before I could proceed.

Hope that helps someone!

@ Bstains , Thanks a lot for that useful tip.

Atul