vmware3 and bridges networking not working

[Mikko Työläjärvi]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Michael Class wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> first of all thank you for the vmware3 port!
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get networking to work inside a vmware
> machine. I am running a (very) current 5.0-current SMP system
> and am getting the folloing message during the startup of the
> vmware engine:
>
> Could not query bridging status on device /dev/vmnet0.
> Please update your vmnet driver.
>
> The modules are loaded:
>
> pc-micha:~> kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   11 0xc0100000 4374b4   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0538000 42314    acpi.ko
>  3    1 0xc64a1000 2000     rtc.ko
>  4    1 0xc64b6000 8000     vmmon_smp.ko
>  5    1 0xc68ad000 2000     vmnet.ko
>  6    1 0xc6ad1000 15000    mga.ko
>
> Any hints of what to try? Should it work?

If vmware3 is anything like vmware2, it should be configured for
"host only" networking when using bridging on FreeBSD.

   $.02,
   /Mikko