FreeBSD 8.1 on VMWare Networking

drywall_dan

I have installed FreeBSD 8.1 on a VM and I can't seem to get the network connection working. I get to the networking part of the installation and it first checks for IPv6 support and then checks for DHCP, this is all on the em0 interface. It then comes up to a screen for me to enter a hostname, dns, IPv4 address. The thing is, how am I supposed to know these? Anyone who has installed FreeBSD on VMWare Workstation please can you help.

Originally asked by Sandeep Bansal on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I use a different VM instead of VMWare but I do have FreeBSD 8.1(64) working. I used the NAT interface (default for VBox) and asked for BSD to try DHCP. BSD apparently picked up an address but still went on to the "give me a specific IP" page. I canceled out of that page and when I looked at ifconfig em0 it had a 10.x.x.x address, was active and I can use ssh from the VM'd FreeBSD to get to other systems on the internet. VMWare might be a little different but I think the general principles should apply. PS: I did the original install without networking and then went back separately to configure it with sysinstall.

Full answer by hotei: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/188989 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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