So I have finally gotten around to setting up a lab using VMWare Player and GNS3. I thought I would give it a test just to see how it would work. I have already installed Ubuntu desktop in VMWare, which of course is simple. Even enabling the extenstions for transparent mode, full screen, etc. worked fine. My goal, however, was to get GNS3 working so I could continue with further IPv6 tests.
VMWare Player sets up two interfaces: Vmnet1 and Vmnet8. Vmnet1 is used for the host only network and vmnet8 is used for the nat network. When I configured GNS3, I connected the cloud interface to vmnet1. Once this is done, any router connected to the cloud is in the same network as any VM placed in the host only network. Compared to the effort it took me to setup Vbox with GNS3 (posted earlier), this time it was quite simple. Could be that now I have more experience with setting these things up though.
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