Cannot ping between two VM's

[TECH198]

I have done this before in earlier versions of Fusion and i don't remember needing to set static IP, just "Host only" to ping via VM's without router, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work anymore.

This is what i have:

Ihave also tried just no static IP and let VMWare Fusion handle, but doesn't work either. Both VM's are set as "Host only"

[pfruth · Accepted solution]

It works.  I do it all the time.

Has nothing to do with whether the IP is a static IP or a DHCP-assigned IP.

You likely have a firewall issue... either on the MacOS host, or in one of the VM guests (Windows 7 or Windows 10 in your example).

For example, in Windows 10, if you've configured the Network profile as "Public" Windows will set a policy to drop ICMP echo (aka. ping) requests.

The method may vary depending on the version of Windows 10... But in a Windows 10 1803 VM, go to Settings -> Network & Internet -> Change connection properties
Check the Network profile setting (see screen-shot).  If it's set to Public, change it to Private.

[TECH198]

Windows Firewall ICMPv4 In was disabled... For some reason this was also true on Windows 7...

[Tonnyphinix]

Wow! This solution worked for me!
Changing the network Settings on Windows from public to private