Assigning an external ip address to a virtual machine

[wmx55]

Basically I have a few external IP addresses and I want to assign one of them to a vmware workstation virtual machine so it can be accesed directly from the internet .

How can I do this ?

[vmroyale]

Hello and welcome to the forums.

Do you have internet connectivity to the host? If so, assign the IP to the VM and use a bridged connection to the NIC that has direct internet access.

Good Luck!

[wmx55]

Can you give me some step by step instructions please ? I don't have advanced knowledge in this domain.

The computer is running windows server 2008 .

In network connection I have Local Area Connection , VMware Network Adapter VMnet1, VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 .

Local area connection is for the network card and I added there all the external IP-s (Properties / TCP/IP / Advanced). I want to assign only one of them to a virtual machine.

[vmroyale]

You will want to remove one of those IP addresses from the host and instead assign it directly to the VM. Think of the network adapter in the host as a switch at this point. The virtual machine will use the physical network adapter to pass traffic, but it will need an IP address to do that. If you have internet access to this network adapter, then this should be all you will need.

[wmx55]

What option for the virtual machine network should I choose ? Bridge,NAT, host only or custom ?

To witch adapter should I assign the Ip address ? VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 or VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 ?

Sorry for all the questions .I never used vmware before and I've spent the last 3 hours trying to figure this out , without success .

[vmroyale]

What option for the virtual machine network should I choose ? Bridge,NAT, host only or custom ?

Try Bridged first.

To witch adapter should I assign the Ip address ? VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 or VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 ?

None of these. You assign the IP address to the network adapter INSIDE the virtual machine.

[wmx55]

I did that but it's still not working .

While I was trying to do this a while ago , I set VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 to Obtain an IP address automatically . Is this the problem and how can I fix it ?

[vmroyale]

How is your virtual machine set up? Look at "Edit Virtual Machine Settings" and report back what is shown under the summary column for Network Adapter. It should be either Bridged, NAT, Host-Only or Custom.

[wmx55]

I attached a screenshot.

[vmroyale]

OK, now can you post a screenshot of the Virtual Network Editor? Start -> All Programs -> VMware -> Virtual Network Editor

Can you also post a screenshot of the physical network adapter properties that the bridged connection is using?

[admin]

Giving an external IP address to a bridged VM should be basically the same as for a physical machine on your network, although you might need to open some holes in any firewall software on the host.

Have you been able to do this with a physical machine? Are your machines behind a router that uses NAT?

[wmx55]

I disabled firewall and it's still not working .

[vmroyale]

In the virtual network editor, change the "Bridged to:" pull down selection from "Automatic" to "Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet".

Can you post the output (or screenshot) of "ipconfig /all" from within the guest OS?

[wmx55]

It worked . Thank you .