2010/1/27 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM, The Doctor <drwho@virtadpt.net> wrote:
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> > Mark Knecht wrote:
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> >> The last time I looked at this (maybe a year ago?) I decided that the
> >> vmware-workstation would let a home user run something like two
> >> instances without charges. Not free in that I'm limited to something
> >> specific but no cost. (Is that free beer? It certainly doesn't sound
> >> like Free Speech...)
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> > There is also a 60-day time limit on the un-paid-for version of VMware
> > Workstation, as I recall.
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> > The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
>
> I got VirtualBox up and running with XP but nothing much more
> yesterday as I ran into XP licensing issues again with M$ and sort of
> backed off.
>
> I haven't figured out what's up with vmware-player networking yet. I
> can get to the web in a browser just fine, do updates through M$
> Update, do GMail. It looks perfect. However WinSCP running in
> vmware-player isn't yet finding other machines on my network. IIRC
> there were different models of networking you could set up. I have to
> go back and relearn that stuff but it's not critical to me until I
> determine if the new machine is really fast enough to run TradeStation
> and, very importantly, if the networking is stable enough and
> transparent enough to allow me to connect to their network for real
> futures trading. That will force me to dig in if it isn't OK right
> now.
>

are you sure that it isn't your routing tables that aren't ok? try
tracerouting the ip you're trying to access and see if you can reach it.
if you cannot you'd have to add the correct routing entries in windows
routing tables.

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