Hi,
I'm relatively new at VMWare, so forgive the question:
I have a VM running Windows XP on a Windows XP host. The VM has the Network Adapter set to NAT. I'm able to browse out to the internet from my VM and I see an IP address when I run ifconfig from within the VM.
My problem is that I'm unable to ping that IP address from my host machine. So, it seems that networking is only working from VM to host, not the other way.
I also tried changing the VM Network Adapter to 'Bridged'. I restarted the VM and was unable to get an IP address.
I realise this may be a straightforward networking issue but I'd appreciate any help!
Thanks.
As I understood, in your first post you wrote you were unable to ping the guest IP from the host.
So it seems to me that the external network has nothing to do with the configuration.
If the guest is WinXP and you want to "ping" to it, please check the settings on the guest's WinXP firewall (I assume it's at least XP SP2).
There is a possibility that the XP firewall is blocking ping requests.
Same may concern the host's firewall, however I don't think you have some special settings for NAT network on the host.
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When you use NAT the virtual guest is hidden from the outside and that is how it is designed (it is NAT). It's IP address (which is from the virtual VMnet8 NAT network, not from the outside) doesn't appear on the physical network and can't be reached from outside (you may have noticed that this is an 192.168.x.y. IP address and this addresses can't be routed). If you want to reach the guest you either must redirect specific ports to the guest (but you still use the host IP to reach the guest, but by using the redirected port the packet will end up at the guest) or you switch the vNIC to "bridged". When you use a bridged vNIC, the guest acts like any other host on the physical network.
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm still having problems.
I changed to 'Bridged' and I still can't see into my VM. In addition, I can't see out from my VM now. I tried renewing the IP address and it fails.
Any thoughts?
the first question would be...is your internal network using DHCP or static IP's?
--We need more information about your network setup. Please describe how your home net is configured.
--If you have a modem+router, you should have no problem getting an IP address in Bridged mode - it should obtain an address from the Router. If your computer is directly connected to the Internet however, that could be the problem. Firewall settings on the Host could also be causing interference.
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As I understood, in your first post you wrote you were unable to ping the guest IP from the host.
So it seems to me that the external network has nothing to do with the configuration.
If the guest is WinXP and you want to "ping" to it, please check the settings on the guest's WinXP firewall (I assume it's at least XP SP2).
There is a possibility that the XP firewall is blocking ping requests.
Same may concern the host's firewall, however I don't think you have some special settings for NAT network on the host.
I believe it's using DHCP.
Best Regards,
I believe it was a XP firewall issue on the VM. I opened up the specific port and am now able to access from my host.
The VM is running in NAT mode, by the way, but it seems to have a unique IP address on the network between host and VM: 192.168.230.136
Thanks to all fo your help!
