Dear All, I had my earlier post sub virtual machine does not start up.. by the way i did manage to solve my problem . i actually dont know what could be the real cause but I did reconnect my cd rom drive and voila did come up let me explain i have a sun blade server which conects the keyboard , mouse and cd rom with a front panel USB cable . so the cd rom was removed and hence my virtual servers were not starting up but now i see a new problem. i am not able to ping the gateway let me explain my sun blade has 2 network cards wqith centos 5.5 one has a public ip and the other my internal network ip. the gateway for my sun blade is the public ip now from the sun server i can ping the gateway. also i can ping the private network gateway both of which on my core switch now my virtual machine has a private network ip ( the same network range as the interface ip ) but when i try to ping the gateway i am not to ping the public ip network and private ip network is on separate vlans apprecite if some can advice and help me if you need any more information plsss do ask regards simon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110104/bf80fef4/attachment-0004.html>