MacLochlainns Weblog

I’ve been revising and correcting typos plus adding new content to that Configuring Mac OS for the Oracle 10g Client blog page. It’s more complete now. It also shows you how to connect from one virtual machine to another by using host file resolution.

Also, I’ve decided that the network configuration steps for VMWare NAT belong in a separate blog page. I’ll try to get that out after Oracle OpenWorld 2008. For those you can’t wait, you’ll find the networking files here:

Mac OS X:

/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/vmnet8

Linux:

/etc/vmware/vmnet8

Windows:

C:\WINDOWS\System32

You’ll find three files. The dhcpd.conf file configures DHCP. The nat.conf file configures incoming ports to your virtual machines, which is known as port forwarding. The mac.conf file stores the physical layer MAC address for your machine.

This should have been the blog post, but I forgot to check page first. It went out the wrong way. I’ve moved the content to a static blog page.

You can find the magic to configure your Mac OS X to natively work with a VM instance running on Linux or Windows. It’s 14 steps long.

If you find anything wrong, please post a comment. Also, if you think there are tags that may help somebody that I’ve excluded let me know.

You can find the steps here …