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Network Issue with VMware for Solaris Express, Developer Edition

807559May 1 2007 — edited May 28 2009
Hi,

I've just downloaded VMware for Solaris Express, Developer Edition from the developers.sun.com site at: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solexpdev/

I'm running it under VMware Server Console 1.0.3 on Windows XP.

After entering my hostname (ferrari-devx) during the sys config phase (after running sys-uncnonfig), an error briefly flashes on the screen before proceeding to the Time Zone step of the system configuration:
t_optmgt: System error: Cannot assign requested address
Then on reboot, I get the following errors:
Failed to plumb IPv4 interfaces(s); vmxnet0
Failed to plumb IPv6 interfaces(s); vmxnet0
Failed to configure IPv4 DHCP interface(s): vmxnet0
May 1 12:42:29 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/physical:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/net-physical" failed with exit status 96.
May 1 12:42:29 svc.startd[7]: network/physical:default: misconfigured: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
Hostname: ferrari-devx
checking ufs filesystem
/dev/rdks/c0d0s7 is logging.
t_optmgt: System error: Cannot assign requested address
May 1 12:42:49 ferrari-devx sendmail[384]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
May 1 12:42:49 ferrari-devx sendmail[384]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
Running svcs -xv shows:
svc:/network/physical:default (phyiscal network interfaces)
 State: maintenance since Tue may 01 13:01:57 2007
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.
    See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
    See: man  -M /usr/share/man -s IM ifconfig
    See: /etc/svc/volatile/network-physical:default.log
Impact: 2 dependent services are not running:
               svc:/milestone/network:default
               svc:/network/ssh:default

#cat network-physical\:default.log
[ May   1 13:01:46 Enabled.  ]
[ May   1 13:01:48 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/net-physical")  ]
[ May   1 13:01:49 Timeout override by svc.startd.   Using infinite timeout  ]
ifconfig: plumb: vmxnet0: No such file or directory
ifconfig: plumb: vmxnet0: No such file or directory
ifconfig: vmxnet0: interface does not exist or cannot be managed using DHCP
moving addresses from failed IPv4 interfaces: vmxnet0 (couldn't move, no alternative interface).
moving addresses from failed IPv4 interfaces: vmxnet0 (couldn't move, no alternative interface).
[ May   1 13:01:57 Method "start" exited with status 96  ]
I have seen this similar thread (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=841&threadID=5163555), however, running
ifconfig -a plumb 
doesn't do anything (it's unclear to me how he finally got it to work).

I've tried running in both the default NAT mode and now in Bridged mode.

Any pointers on how to proceed would be appreciated.

Regards,
Brian
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