title: Blackberry Simulator Network issue on Windows7/64bit/32bit(on vmfusion), what to do?
body: <p>i have Windows 7 64bit on my PC and i have Windows 7 32bit on my vmfusion on mac.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is as follows, if i run early version of blackberry simulators (not touchscreen, but with scroll ball), i do not get network access. I try to run MDS as i have read on forums, but it looks like MDS quits, and i still have no network acess.</p>
  
  <p>The new simulators, let me just run them, and i dont even need to lunch mds, i get access to network with no problem. But the project i am working on, requires me to test mobile site again older blackberry devices.</p>
  
  <p>So here is what i have done so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Made sure i have following for java: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.5.0_22" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.5.0_22", do i need anything else?</p></li>
  <li><p>set up environment path variable to bin folders: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.5.0_22\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.5.0_22\bin;</p></li>
  <li><p>installed everything at separate location as administrator (D:\Programs\Research In Motion), so not to have any write/read issues.</p></li>
  <li><p>installed MDS and then BlackBerry Smartphone Simulators 4.5.0 - 4.5.0.81 (8100)</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>now i try to run MDS first, and i see two cmd/three windows popping up one after another, and closing right away. I start up simulator and everything starst great, but when i go to browser and try to navigate to web resource i get an error "Unable to connect to the selected Mobile Data Service, please try again later".</p>
  
  <p>Little edit:</p>
  
  <p>I have moved my effort to XP, which solved MDS start up issue, but simulator still cant establish network connection. See screen shot.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sy4BD.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>