Leo Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Not sure if this belongs in Networking, Emulation of software but anyway.... I installed and configured vmware server on my machine and it has created two new network devices vmnet1 and vmnet2 however it also prevents me accessing the internet as it keeps overwriting my resolv.conf file on startup replacing my nameserver ip address with a different one. The only way I can resolve this (ho ho) is to disconnect all network devices, manually amend resolv.conf and then restart the eth1 network device (the one I use for internet). I googled around on this and found some stuff about Mandriva and vmware not playing nicely together, I also found a 'fix' with involved amending a vmware config file (can't remember the name at the moment but I will update later) to include vmnet* in a list of network device names. Obviously this has not worked. Has anyone any other ideas as to what is going wrong/how to fix it? Thanks Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 If you're using ext2 or ext3 as your fs you can lock the file: chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted June 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Should I alter the file to include the nameserver addresses added by vmware before I do this? Or is this completely unnecessary since I have a working nameserver? Thanks Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I'd try without. You can always unlock the file with chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf if it doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanPihlgren Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 :D Thanks! :D This helped me with my problem also. :D Sometimes a search will solv your problem! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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