XP/Pro cannot see network after Leopard 10.5.8

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by HowardN, Aug 29, 2009.

  1. HowardN

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    My VM worked fine until 10.5.8 and now it cannot see anything on my network. Any suggestions?
     
  2. jcO14

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    Having the same issue

    I've just fired up Parallels 3.0 (Build 5636) for the first time in a couple of months and found the same issue. I cannot find any way to get the network to work from within Parallels. I have recently upgraded to Mac OSX 10.5.8 - has been working fine for a year or two before this.
     
  3. Elric

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    Please click Start->Run and execute cmd.exe
    type in it "ipconfig /all" (without quotes) and post here the screenshot with output
     
  4. jcO14

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    Ipconfig results

    Here's the ipconfig results with Shared networking enabled:

    Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

    C:\Documents and Settings\mac>ipconfig /all

    Windows IP Configuration

    Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : macxp
    Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
    Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
    IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
    WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

    Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Parallels Network Adapter
    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-42-EC-19-55
    Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.71.79
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

    C:\Documents and Settings\mac>
     
  5. Elric

    Elric Parallels Team

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    I'm unsure on what is really going in Parallels 3.0 (know little).. May be repair of permissions will help... but as a quick try I can suggest

    Please start /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and execute the following commands (without quotes):
    1) "ps aux | grep pvsnatd", post here an output
    2) "ifconfig -al" (post here the output)
    3) "ls /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/pvsnat*" (output)

    and as a main thing that should help
    4) "sudo /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/pvsnatd" and restart the VM
     
  6. jcO14

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    I seem to have resolved it

    I ran the requested commands and started pasting all the outputs here but then seem to have resolved the problem as follows:

    Firstly /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/pvsnatd was already running and there were no crash outputs. So I shutdown XP and quit Parallels, killed pvsnatd and restarted it with sudo /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/pvsnatd

    I then restarted Parallels and checked the network configuration from the initial window. For some reason it was set to Bridged ethernet (I don't recall ever changing this) so I set it to Shared networking and then started up the VM/XP and now it can connect to the network OK.

    I suggest HowardN checks this too.

    Thanks for your help Elric.
     

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