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Using VMware Astaro on laptop for demo

BAlfson
I'm having a tough time visualizing "where" the Astaro VM is.

At home, I'm in wireless mode behind a Linksys WRTP54G.  In order to not hassle the wife, I'd just as soon leave that as is and put the Astaro VM in bridge mode.  I assigned br0 an IP of 192.168.x.5, with a gateway of the IP of my Linksys, 192.168.x.1.  Do I need to do anything else with the VMware adapter definitions I see in Windows?

Now, if I change my WiFi IP4 address from the DHCP assigned 192.168.x.101 to one outside the DHCP range of the Linksys and set the gateway to 192.168.x.5, I'm done.  It's now just like the Astaro was a separate device between my laptop and the router.  Right?

Then why can't I see it anymore?

Thanks - Bob

PS OK, so I reread the readme.txt, changed the IP of VMnet8 to 192.168.x.5, but Windows reported an address conflict so I changed it to .6.   I switched my laptop's WiFi back to Linksys DHCP, so now I can log in to the WebAdmin at .5.   I guess I don't understand enough about how the VMware Ethernet ports work.  Maybe I'm trying to make it too complicated?


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    OK, this is confusing.  I suspended the Astaro VM an hour ago, then just restarted it.  On the console display, it still says the IP of the internal interface is 192.168.150.5, but I accessed WebAdmin on the new IP I set, 192.168.x.5.  

    So "suspend" literally does just that and the Astaro instance is not restarted when VM is restarted.

    After 'Management >> Restart', it came back up with no IP address on console, but 192.168.x.5 still works.
     
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson
    Did you use the Astaro VM Image, or an ISO install?
    7.3x or 7.4?

    Barry
  • 0 in reply to BarryG
    The Astaro VM image.
     
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