Cannot contact Guest OS

[Langworth]

Hello experts, your sage advice is needed

I have a Windows XP machine running VMWare Player and an Oracle Enterprise Linux guest

The OEL guest ran flawlessly on a previous Win XP machine - the host could communicate with the guest, and the guest could communicate with the host and the internet.

I have now moved the guest to this new machine, and from the guest I can still contact the host and the internet, but the problem is that from the host I am now unable to contact the guest.

I am using NAT (as I was on the old host/guest) and my guest ip details are

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:34:C4:D5
          inet addr:192.168.153.128  Bcast:192.168.153.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe34:c4d5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:156682 (153.0 KiB)  TX bytes:336164 (328.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:185 Base address:0x1400

There have been nochanges to the OEL firewall or network configuration. The host OS host file contains the same entry as the old host defining the guest, and if I try to ping the guest I get:

C:\>ping 192.168.153.128

Pinging 192.168.153.128 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.

If I trace the route to the guest it goes out to the internet via my router (171.28.136.254) and doesn't seem to know about the guest:

C:\>tracert 192.168.153.128

Tracing route to essbase.us.oracle.com [192.168.153.128]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    25 ms     3 ms     3 ms  voyager.sdambridge.com [171.28.136.254]
  2    29 ms    27 ms    26 ms  88-104-112-1.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [88.104.112.1]
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Your help would be much appreciated.

[WoodyZ]

Need to see the full output of ipconfig /all on the Host.

On the Host in a  in a Command Prompt... (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt)

Copy & paste the following command, as is, and press Enter...

ipconfig /all > "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\host_ipconfig.txt"

This will create a file on the Host's Desktop named host_ipconfig.txt

Archive (compress) the file unedited and attach the .zip file to a reply post.

[Langworth]

Here you go. This is with the VPN connection active but not convinced that's relevant as the problem is the same regardless of whether vpn is connected or not.

Simon

[WoodyZ]

The reason I wanted to see the output of ipconfig was to see what vmnet1 and vmnet8 are showing and if the Guest is using NAT and it's IP Address is 192.168.153.128 then there should to be a Host Virtual Network Adapter (VMnet8) with and IP Address of 192.168.153.1 and it appears there is not.

[Langworth]

Hi

Does the attached screenshot help? It shows vnmet8 is enabled and configured for the 192.168.153 subnet - but I agree it should show up in the ipconfig output because I recall now that it used to be there.....   Any suggestions what needs to be done to fix that?

Thanks

Simon

[WoodyZ]

There is nothing bound to the VMnet8 Adapter and everything but VMware Bridge Protocol should be checked on the General tab of the VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 Properties.

[Langworth]

It works!!!!

Ha ha ha ha ha!!

That's me laughing deliriously 'cos I've just ssh'd into the VM!!!

I'm really grateful - thanks so much for your help