Virtual PC 6.1.1... grrr

[btoth]

So I "upgraded" to Virutal PC 6.1.1, since then I've noticed that while using Virtual Switch networking it was kicking my Mac off the network! Then I switched back to Shared networking and noticed that Windows was using an IP of 192.168.131.### instead of my local network setup which uses 192.168.1.### and of course, it won't see my local Mac on the Windows workgroup using Shared networking. Then, just to make sure that sharing was turned on I went into my sharing control panel on the Mac... it told me my firewall could not be used because another firewall was in use!!!! I never use my Mac firewall because I'm behind a hardware firewall, but still... sure enough I quit Virtual PC and everything went back to normal. Stupid Microsoft! Is this how they fix security problems? They alter your Mac settings to cover for Windows problems? I'm curious if Virtual PC would give me these same issues if I put Linux on instead of Windows... probably.

It's like my I tried to patch Windows (on my PC) for some security update and afterwards none of my ASP.Net projects would run even with proper permissions turned on.

 

[bobw]

it told me my firewall could not be used because another firewall was in use

Type the following command in Terminal;

sudo ipfw flush

 

[Zammy-Sam]

did Bobs advice help you out? I am too lazy to read your prob-description

 

[octane]

I had exactly the same problem with version 6 and 6.1

In the end, the firewall became quite messed up and I had keep fixing permissions.

However, I do use my firewall, so it was annoying for me...

 

[Captain Code]

Are you running Windows XP in VPC? It has a firewall built in as well and if that's turned on then it might cause problems. Check in the network settings in Windows.