Server 1.0.3 hosted on 32bit ws2003 R2, SP2.
Guest 32bit XP SP 2
I'm having some network issues. I have a rather large (50 GB) install package on a network share on the vmware host server. I'm running the setup on a guest pointing to the UNC of the host. Whenever I run the setup, all nodes simultaneous (~80 real ones) on my network seem to lose connectivity for about a minute at a time about once per hour (intermittent). The setup takes a few hours to complete. I tracked this down with Wireshark on my desktop which is on the same subnet, but a few switch "hops" down. There are black packets flooding the network from the host ip to the guest:
54811 114.992024 192.168.10.52 192.168.10.41 TCP \[TCP Previous segment lost] \[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
54812 114.992148 192.168.10.52 192.168.10.41 TCP \[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
54813 114.992274 192.168.10.52 192.168.10.41 TCP \[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
54814 114.993993 192.168.10.52 192.168.10.41 TCP \[TCP Previous segment lost] \[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
I'm wondering why I'd even see these from my computer. It looks like Unicast traffic. I would think it would be really efficient to copy data between guest and host machines on a share. I thought the datastream may not even hit a wire, but my wireshark capture shows that's not the case. Why is this happening? Is there a better practice?
==========Host=============
C:\WINDOWS\system32>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : alpha
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : domain.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : domain.com
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.184.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.57.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-18-8B-49-FA-74
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.52
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.5
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.43
192.168.10.48
=========Guest=========
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "2048"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Windows XP Professional.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "data2"
guestOS = "winxppro"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
annotation = ""
workingDir = "."
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 64 da e1 6b d5 b2-33 24 7a c1 d9 c4 d9 6d"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 64 da e1 6b d5 b2-33 24 7a c1 d9 c4 d9 6d"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:c4:d9:6d"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
ide0:1.present = "TRUE"
ide0:1.fileName = "DATA.vmdk"
ide0:1.redo = ""
autostart = "poweron"
C:\WINDOWS\system32>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : data2
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : domiain.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : domain.com
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-C4-D9-6D
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.41
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.5
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.43
192.168.10.48