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| | Hosting Virtual PC 2007 vm's on a Server 2003 enterprise host I have a Windows Server 2003 enterprise edition, trial, and on it I installed Virtual PC, with two XP Pro VM's. (I'm teaching an exchange 2003 class at a local tech college). I'm running the host as a domain controller, dns, and exchange server. What I wanted to do was connect both vm's to the host's domain, and test exchange with outlook on one of the vm's. I can't get the vm's connected to the domain though. The vm's can ping the host, but not vice versa, and when trying to connect them to the domain I get a DNS server not available error. I have everything set up with static ips; originally I thought it was a DNS problem, but it worked fine when I used two XP boxes I have in my lab. The computer's we're using in the lab are dells, 2 gig ram, decent processors, broadcom nics. The vm's and host are on the same subnet. I've tried all the different virtual pc settings possible. This worked fine on a Windows Server 2003 std edition. Has anyone else come across this, and either discovered you can't use virtual pc with 2003 enterprise, or found a fix? Thanks for the help. |
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| | Re: Hosting Virtual PC 2007 vm's on a Server 2003 enterprise host On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:48:07 -0700, dbere <dbere@newsgroup> wrote: Quote: >I have a Windows Server 2003 enterprise edition, trial, and on it I installed >Virtual PC, with two XP Pro VM's. (I'm teaching an exchange 2003 class at a >local tech college). I'm running the host as a domain controller, dns, and >exchange server. > >What I wanted to do was connect both vm's to the host's domain, and test >exchange with outlook on one of the vm's. I can't get the vm's connected to >the domain though. The vm's can ping the host, but not vice versa, and when >trying to connect them to the domain I get a DNS server not available error. >I have everything set up with static ips; originally I thought it was a DNS >problem, but it worked fine when I used two XP boxes I have in my lab. Quote: > >The computer's we're using in the lab are dells, 2 gig ram, decent >processors, broadcom nics. Have you updated to the latest drivers? Broadcom NICs can be notorious with VMs. Quote: > >The vm's and host are on the same subnet. I've tried all the different >virtual pc settings possible. This worked fine on a Windows Server 2003 std >edition. Has anyone else come across this, and either discovered you can't >use virtual pc with 2003 enterprise, or found a fix? > >Thanks for the help. prevent pings. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ http://smudj.wordpress.com/ |
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| | Re: Hosting Virtual PC 2007 vm's on a Server 2003 enterprise host Thanks for the reply, The domain controller does provide the dns, and all firewalls are off. One of the first things I tried, I'm not sure what the fact that I can only ping one way means. "Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:48:07 -0700, dbere > <dbere@newsgroup> wrote: > Quote: > >I have a Windows Server 2003 enterprise edition, trial, and on it I installed > >Virtual PC, with two XP Pro VM's. (I'm teaching an exchange 2003 class at a > >local tech college). I'm running the host as a domain controller, dns, and > >exchange server. > > > >What I wanted to do was connect both vm's to the host's domain, and test > >exchange with outlook on one of the vm's. I can't get the vm's connected to > >the domain though. The vm's can ping the host, but not vice versa, and when > >trying to connect them to the domain I get a DNS server not available error. > >I have everything set up with static ips; originally I thought it was a DNS > >problem, but it worked fine when I used two XP boxes I have in my lab. > Is the domain controller the DNS provider? > Quote: > > > >The computer's we're using in the lab are dells, 2 gig ram, decent > >processors, broadcom nics. > Do you have NIC teaming or TCP offloading enabled on the broadcoms? > Have you updated to the latest drivers? Broadcom NICs can be > notorious with VMs. > Quote: > > > >The vm's and host are on the same subnet. I've tried all the different > >virtual pc settings possible. This worked fine on a Windows Server 2003 std > >edition. Has anyone else come across this, and either discovered you can't > >use virtual pc with 2003 enterprise, or found a fix? > > > >Thanks for the help. > Have you checked the firewall on the XP VMs? By default this will > prevent pings. > > -- > Cheers, > Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP > http://vpc.essjae.com/ > http://smudj.wordpress.com/ > . > |
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| | Re: Hosting Virtual PC 2007 vm's on a Server 2003 enterprise host On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:39:01 -0700, dbere <dbere@newsgroup> wrote: Quote: >Thanks for the reply, > >The domain controller does provide the dns, and all firewalls are off. One >of the first things I tried, I'm not sure what the fact that I can only ping >one way means. > network options? -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ http://smudj.wordpress.com/ |
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| | Re: Hosting Virtual PC 2007 vm's on a Server 2003 enterprise host I tried both, neither works. There are two other settings, local and something I can't think of at the moment, that didn't do the trick either. Host NIC works for the std edition. Thanks again ![]() |
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| | Re: Hosting Virtual PC 2007 vm's on a Server 2003 enterprise host On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:37:01 -0700, dbere <dbere@newsgroup> wrote: Quote: Quote: >>Thanks for the reply, >> >>The domain controller does provide the dns, and all firewalls are off. One >>of the first things I tried, I'm not sure what the fact that I can only ping >>one way means. >> >Have you selected the host NIC or Shared Networking for the VMs >network options? > Quote: >> >>I tried both, neither works. There are two other settings, local and >>something I can't think of at the moment, that didn't do the trick either. >>Host NIC works for the std edition. If you want to connect the guests to the host domain controller then the only two possible networking options are to use the host NIC or Local Only. Windows networking does not allow NAT or ICS for networking if you want to attach a PC to an AD domain. If you go the Local Only way then you need to set up the host with a Loopback adapter sitting on the same network as the guests, I think. But back to your connectivity issues: If you have a situation where the guests can ping (and get response from) the host and you are not using NAT or ICS, then you actually have a working connection. If it works one way it works the other way. TCP/IP is not unidirectional... So the failure for the ping towards the guests would come down to HOW you ping: ping <guest ip address)? or ping <guest computer name>? The second ping requires a working DNS system that can resolve the computer name and I doubt very much that you have that. It will not come on by default... So please first test the ping by IP address and report back. If that was what you did then the next possibility is packet filtering on the guest and firewalls. Out of the box new Windows operating systems always refuse to reply to ping so it has to be enabled in Windows. Where depends on how it is blocked, firewall is one place and advanced network interface options another. -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |
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