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vpnc works well as vpn within an Athena VM. To restore zephyr functionality on VM restart, you will likely need to run:
zctl load
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[alexp, Athena VM] PXE install issues on Windows (XP, Vista) host machines for Athena VMs:
Both on my laptop and on another machine running
Vista, I kept running into a situation where the PXE installer would
attempt to connect but spin forever, or sometimes connect and begin
the install, but then hang shortly after. There were no obvious clues,
error messages or useful logs. Finally I took my machine up to the
demo center and tried there, and everything ran fine, so it must have
been some network problem. What made this really nasty was that:
1. I've had no other obvious network problems on the machine (host) on
the same subnet and
2. I only ran into this on Windows machines, not on Linux or Mac hosts
on the same subnet.
The other odd thing I noticed is that when I tried copying working,
powered off VMs from other machines to the laptop (telling VMware it
was "moved" or "copied"- I tried both), changing the IP address to
something appropriate, the networking in the guest was broken no
matter what I tried- this was on the same subnet where I had the
problem. Yet after I was able to do the PXE install upstairs, the
PXE-installed VM worked fine on the "problem" subnet.
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VMware Fusion Virtual Machines are automatically excluded from Time Machine backups. This appears to be in response to an apple bug in 10.5 that may have been resolved in 10.5.2, though there is no formal word from VMware.See http://communities.vmware.com/message/882448#882448 for more info.
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