Guys I'm quite new to this VM stuff so be gentle. So far had no probs and everything has done exactly what it said it would. I'm running 2 VMs (one XP, one Windows 7) under Snow Leopard in 64 bit mode. Networking wise I've alwasy run in bridged mode. This weekend I changed my DSL modem and now neither picks up the network easily. If I load Explorer under XP I have to run diagnostics to get internet, under Windows 7 I get nothing but it will work in shared mode. Any thoughts what I could do to get this back to normal i.e. working straight away?
I'm afraid that it is some feature of the DSL-modem. Bridged networking requires a lot of conditions to work. Main is that switch (in your case it is the DSL-modem) should allow more the one IP-address on one port.. It seems that you are stuck with Shared.. positive moment, that it should work and it doesn't have too much limitations and in most cases provides no worse functionality then bridged. Make a note if you are missing some functionality - may be there is a solution.
Thanks for the advice Elric, you;re certainly on to something. I retested my old Netgear and it works fine. Playing around tonight I found it worked if I plugged modem directly into the Mac OR used hard wired ethernet home network. Normal home network is modem into Netgear hub via ethernet. Also into hub by wire is Airport express (and other devices) mac connects to network wirelessly via Express. The tests I did today were the same wiring/wireless: old Netgear works wirelessly from Express, 2-wire modem only works if Mac wired into hub, not wirelessly. Hope this makes sense (and offers some clues).
Looking into description, it seems that may help option "Use host MAC for DHCP requests". It appears in VM Config->NetworkAdapter for AirPort bridgings when "Advanced" is checked.. or may help static IPs in VMs
Thanks again for the answer. I've tried the MAC option but my modem (DHCP server) doesn't support his authentication for wireless networks. I've also tried static IPs with again no "significant" success. I quote as when I first tried this Windows 7 DID connect briefly and dropped - I have seen this on occasions. before. Remember if I repair in XP it fixes the problem (but not permanently). Windows 7 doesn't but does seem to work sometimes albeit briefly. With a couple of other current posts about similar problems under similar circumstances, could there be a glitch in the latest software?
Most likely it isn't. But if you point me to postings about problems that seem similar, I'll try to explain why these problems are different..
