ok so basicly I want to run UnRaid inside vmworkstation for testing (I have no spare hardware I can slap together and play with).

 

with a bit of fiddling around I have Unraid booted but its bugging out with connecting to the NIC and just looping back on itself.

 

I have tried bridged, NAT and host only (all of which work fine on every other VM I have)

 

Basicly im stuck with what I can do. I can access unaids cmd line but I don't want that. Trying to connect to 'http://tower' is a waste of time because unraid is not connecting onto the network.

is there something that I need to change to get unraid to start talking on the network.

 

Any help would be hugely appreciated

Still no luck. no help either. I'll just leave UnRaid in the dust until I have some spare hardware.

 

Thanks for all the help..

There are plenty of people who run unRAID under VMWare without issues.  I must admit this is the first time I have heard of anyone having problems getting the network to come up when running unRAID under VMWare.  I would suggest that you are more likely to get help if you posted in the Virtualising unRAID section of the forum.

There are plenty of people who run unRAID under VMWare without issues.  I must admit this is the first time I have heard of anyone having problems getting the network to come up when running unRAID under VMWare.  I would suggest that you are more likely to get help if you posted in the Virtualising unRAID section of the forum.

 

Oh thank you!! I honestly did do a search but more or less came up with nothing. I will have a closer look through that area.

 

To be honest it's rather weird for me as well. Both windows and linux have never had a problem connecting to the network.

There are plenty of people who run unRAID under VMWare without issues.  I must admit this is the first time I have heard of anyone having problems getting the network to come up when running unRAID under VMWare.  I would suggest that you are more likely to get help if you posted in the Virtualising unRAID section of the forum.

 

Oh thank you!! I honestly did do a search but more or less came up with nothing. I will have a closer look through that area.

 

To be honest it's rather weird for me as well. Both windows and linux have never had a problem connecting to the network.

One limitation of VMWare Workstation (at least I think it is still a limitation) is that you cannot pass through physical disks that are larger than 2TB to a VM.  This means VMWare can be excellent when testing but is a limitation one needs of.