>Dear all, I am using for my work a marine navigation program called Navi
>Sailor 3000 by Transas. In order to have it with me while on board of
>different vessels I decided to virtualize it.
>Almost everything works fine, except for the info function.
>It should display info about objects on marine charts when clicking but,
>instead of seeing data, the window dispalys the standard page of a failed
>internet connection.
>To be more precise the window does not belong to IE, but opens inside the
>Transas program.
>I suppose that a network configuration problem is behind the problem, but I
>am not experinced enough to find it.
>Any Suggestion?
>

> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:47:01 -0700, Piero FIaccadori <Piero
> (email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >Dear all, I am using for my work a marine navigation program called Navi
> >Sailor 3000 by Transas. In order to have it with me while on board of
> >different vessels I decided to virtualize it.
> >Almost everything works fine, except for the info function.
> >It should display info about objects on marine charts when clicking but,
> >instead of seeing data, the window dispalys the standard page of a failed
> >internet connection.
> >To be more precise the window does not belong to IE, but opens inside the
> >Transas program.
> >I suppose that a network configuration problem is behind the problem, but I
> >am not experinced enough to find it.
> >Any Suggestion?
> >
>
> If you run the same program on a real physical PC while this PC is
> *not* connected to a network, is the result the same?
> You could test by unplugging your network cable on the physical PC
> where you test this.
>
> If this is indeed the case then you are probably dealing with a
> program that requires Internet access in order to function correctly
> and you might have trouble getting it to work on-board a vessel at
> sea....
>
> In general terms the virtual machine will use the host PC network
> adapter to gain network access (it is the default configuration to use
> the host NIC also in the guest). So you must have full Internet access
> to your host network adapter for it to work.
>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
>