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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: vic zandy <zandy@cs.wisc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:40:29 +0000
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> i can't configure the vmware dhcp server
> to give out a static address (at least, not
> easily) so i just do it myself.

for what it's worth, here's how i get a static ip
address from the vmware 4 dhcp server on windows:

1. set the mac address of guest machine ethernet device
in the virtual machine .vmx config file
ethernet0.address = "00:50:56:00:00:01"

2. to
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\vmnetdhcp.conf
add this rule to map that mac address to the static ip:

host plan9 {
    hardware ethernet 00:50:56:00:00:01;
    fixed-address 192.168.11.10;
    option broadcast-address 192.168.11.255;
    option domain-name-servers 192.168.11.2;
    option domain-name "faircoin.net";
    option netbios-name-servers 192.168.11.2;
    option routers 192.168.11.2;
}

note that using the new vmware 4 virtual network editor
may nuke rules you add to vmnetdhcp.conf.

also, vmware 3 kept vmnetdhcp.conf in a different
location:  c:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnetdhcp.conf