>
> I hate to start a new post here, but the my original post is like on page
> four and this forum doesn't "bump" posts to the front when you reply to it.
>
> The first paragraph was my original post, and the second was what I posted
> the other day.
>
> My physical server has two NICs, the first one is unbound to the virtual
> machines, the second one is. In the configuration for the virtual machine
> under network adaptors I selected the second NIC in the "connected to" space,
> and set the MAC address to static. Both physical cards have a cable
> connected and on the physical machine gives no message indicating that the
> cable on card 2 is unplugged, but on the virtual server using this NIC when
> checking the network adaptor is says the cable is unplugged. so....what
> could the problem be? I'm assuming that once I resolve this
> problem that I'll be able to add the virtual machines to the domain of the
> host server without any further configuration and getting an IP address from
> the DHCP server.
>
> On the NIC being used by the host the VMNS box is unchecked while
> the others remain checked, for the second NIC to be used by the virtual
> machines only the VMNS box is checked and nothing else. For the virtual NIC
> in the Virtual machine Client for microsoft, file and print sharing and
> TCP/IP are checked. I keep getting the network unplugged message. I just
> checked the physical connection and both NICs are connected and showing
> activity.
>
>

>
> I hate to start a new post here, but the my original post is like on page
> four and this forum doesn't "bump" posts to the front when you reply to it.
>
> The first paragraph was my original post, and the second was what I posted
> the other day.
>
> My physical server has two NICs, the first one is unbound to the virtual
> machines, the second one is. In the configuration for the virtual machine
> under network adaptors I selected the second NIC in the "connected to" space,
> and set the MAC address to static. Both physical cards have a cable
> connected and on the physical machine gives no message indicating that the
> cable on card 2 is unplugged, but on the virtual server using this NIC when
> checking the network adaptor is says the cable is unplugged. so....what
> could the problem be? I'm assuming that once I resolve this
> problem that I'll be able to add the virtual machines to the domain of the
> host server without any further configuration and getting an IP address from
> the DHCP server.
>
> On the NIC being used by the host the VMNS box is unchecked while
> the others remain checked, for the second NIC to be used by the virtual
> machines only the VMNS box is checked and nothing else. For the virtual NIC
> in the Virtual machine Client for microsoft, file and print sharing and
> TCP/IP are checked. I keep getting the network unplugged message. I just
> checked the physical connection and both NICs are connected and showing
> activity.
>
>

>
> I hate to start a new post here, but the my original post is like on page
> four and this forum doesn't "bump" posts to the front when you reply to it.
>
> The first paragraph was my original post, and the second was what I posted
> the other day.
>
> My physical server has two NICs, the first one is unbound to the virtual
> machines, the second one is. In the configuration for the virtual machine
> under network adaptors I selected the second NIC in the "connected to" space,
> and set the MAC address to static. Both physical cards have a cable
> connected and on the physical machine gives no message indicating that the
> cable on card 2 is unplugged, but on the virtual server using this NIC when
> checking the network adaptor is says the cable is unplugged. so....what
> could the problem be? I'm assuming that once I resolve this
> problem that I'll be able to add the virtual machines to the domain of the
> host server without any further configuration and getting an IP address from
> the DHCP server.
>
> On the NIC being used by the host the VMNS box is unchecked while
> the others remain checked, for the second NIC to be used by the virtual
> machines only the VMNS box is checked and nothing else. For the virtual NIC
> in the Virtual machine Client for microsoft, file and print sharing and
> TCP/IP are checked. I keep getting the network unplugged message. I just
> checked the physical connection and both NICs are connected and showing
> activity.
>