internet access problem from fedora 14 guest in windows 7 host (player 3)

[jontrabier]

Hi,

I'm not an expert on vmware products or linux, please give explicit advice.Thanks in advance.

I have never had problems with internet access from a vmware virtual machine whenever I build one ... until a couple of days ago. I cannot ping google.com. However the windows host can ping the fedora guest.

Host: win 7

Guest: fedora 14

VMware player 3.1.6

On windows, ifconfig gives this:

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d061:295a:dbb:cf43%20
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.161.1
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

In the fedora guest, ipconfig gives this:

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:65:D8:B8 
          inet addr:192.168.161.134  Bcast:192.168.161.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe65:d8b8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:10223 (9.9 KiB)  TX bytes:4763 (4.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5312 (5.1 KiB)  TX bytes:5312 (5.1 KiB)

In the fedora guest, when I do System > Network > Edit, I've set:

Nickname: eth2

Control by network manager: checked

Activate device when computer starts: checked

Automatic obtain IP address with DHCP: checked

Primary DNS: 192.168.161.2

The virtual machine configuration file:

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1024"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "f14-player3.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = ""
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "thinprint"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
displayName = "f14-player3-mine"
guestOS = "fedora"
nvram = "f14-player3.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
printers.enabled = "TRUE"
gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "FALSE"
extendedConfigFile = "f14-player3.vmxf"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:65:d8:b8"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d 79 33 a4 8a 6c 11-dc bd 8d c2 90 65 d8 b8"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 79 33 a4 8a 6c 11-dc bd 8d c2 90 65 d8 b8"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
unity.wasCapable = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "TRUE"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "1"
debugStub.linuxOffsets = "0x0,0xffffffff,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0"
replay.filename = ""
scsi0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "16777216"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "429875507"
ide1:0.fileName = "D:"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "C:\"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "C"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"
checkpoint.vmState = ""