Hi,
Here's a link explaining how to configure Red Hat 9 as a guest OS on VMWare. I used the last bit about using DHCP and then reserved the address for nosmo by using nosmo's MAC addresses on my router.
http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/wwhel ... hat90.html
Another thing I found, when running VMWare on Linux, that is Linux being the host OS, that whenever I would restart my computer I would lose all vmnets except the vmnets which were actually assigned by vmware-config.pl so I found a website that has a solution to the problem. Here's the link:
http://www.posteet.com/tags/vmware