Hi all,
I've got a head-scratcher of a networking problem. I'm trying to connect to an old network audio device which comes with its own control program.
Here's my setup:
- Win10 running Workstation Pro 15.5
- Installed Win XP from regular iso (ie. not extracted from XP Mode) and installed necessary dependencies (eg. dotNetFramework, etc)
Symptoms:
Case 1
- Connect USB ethernet to Host.
- All Host network adapters have "VM Bridge" unchecked, except for USB ethernet.
- On Host, USB ethernet has only "VM Bridge" option checked. All other options disabled.
- On VM, I configured vmnet0 to be linked to USB ethernet only, and then set Custom > vmnet0 network in the XP VM.
In this case, in VM I can ping the device, but it doesn't show up in the control program at all.
Case 2
- Connect USB ethernet to VM. Install driver. Disable all other network adapters in VM.
In this case, I can ping the device in VM and it also shows up in the program. TX and RX both work, but I get dropped packets on RX.
Any idea what's going on? I'm not necessarily looking for a "solution" but rather an explanation to why these two cases have different results.