Host-only disabled with VMware Workstation 5.5.1

[tigermanIT]

Hi all,

I'm trying Vmware for the first time.

I have created a virtual machine with Red Hat Linux on Windows XP host.

I configured a Bridget Network connection and now I'd like to enable Host-only networking but this option is disabled and I don't know how to enable it.

I have a limitated knowledge of Vmware. anyone can help me ?

Joseph

[rbromfield]

Hi,

VMware 5.5.4 is available and also six. Upgrade to either one and see if that helps first.

[KevinG]

Post the output from " ipconfig /all " from your Windows XP host.

Post the output from " ifconfig -a " from your Red Hat Linux guest.

Post the .vmx file from the virtual machine

[tigermanIT]

ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Spa0-lt

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : uk.kontiki.com

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : uk.kontiki.com

home

kontiki.com

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 4:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Networ

k Connection

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-02-5D-47-C9

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Cont

roller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-15-C5-1E-5D-79

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.87

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 12 May 2007 04:16:12

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 13 May 2007 04:16:12

/sbin/ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:D3:3D:A7

inet addr:192.168.1.90 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fed3:3da7/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:7100 (6.9 KiB) TX bytes:1483 (1.4 KiB)

Interrupt:185 Base address:0x1400

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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4

NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmx

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

memsize = "1024"

MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmdk"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"

ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

usb.present = "TRUE"

sound.present = "TRUE"

sound.virtualDev = "es1371"

sound.fileName = "-1"

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

displayName = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4"

guestOS = "rhel4"

nvram = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.nvram"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

uuid.location = "56 4d 1b e9 5f 3a e0 96-64 1d 6f 7f 1c d3 3d a7"

uuid.bios = "56 4d 1b e9 5f 3a e0 96-64 1d 6f 7f 1c d3 3d a7"

ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:d3:3d:a7"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

sound.startConnected = "FALSE"

checkpoint.vmState = ""

[KevinG]

Your virtual machine is currently configured for "Bridged" networking and I assume this is because you can not get "Host-Only" networking.

If you want to use host-only or NAT virtual networking, you are going to need to uninstall VMware and reinstall the software. You are missing the virtual network adapters vmnet1 & vmnet8 on the host.

The uninstall will NOT delete your virtual machines

[tigermanIT]

thanks kevin and rbromfield.

I have installed VMware Workstation 6 and now Host-only is enable.

I have another network problem now. I've configured a static address (no DHCP) on my guest OS but there isn't communication between host (XP) and guest (RedHat) in Host-only mode.

WINDOWS XP :

ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Spa0-lt

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : uk.kontiki.com

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : uk.kontiki.com

home

kontiki.com

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 4:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Networ

k Connection

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-02-5D-47-C9

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Cont

roller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-15-C5-1E-5D-79

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.87

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 12 May 2007 04:16:12

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 13 May 2007 04:16:12

RED HAT :

/sbin/ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:BC:BB:3C

inet addr:192.168.1.90 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fed3:3da7/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 KiB) TX bytes:1134 (1.1 KiB)

Interrupt:185 Base address:0x1400

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:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:1206 (560.0 b) TX bytes:1206 (1.1 kiB)

If I try to ping from Guest to Host I get this message :

\[root@localhost]]# ping 192.168.1.87

PING 192.168.1.87 (192.168.1.87) 56(84) bytes of data.

From 192.168.1.90 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.1.90 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.1.90 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.1.90 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.1.90 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

.........

.........

\[root@localhost]]# netstat -rn

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmark Flags MSS Window irtt Iface

192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

0.0.0.0 192.168.1.90 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

\[root@localhost]]# traceroute 192.168.1.87

traceroute to 192.168.1.87 (192.168.1.87), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets

1 192.168.1.90 (192.168.1.90) 3002.786 ms !H 3003.140 ms !H 3002.519 ms !H

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmx :

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

memsize = "1024"

MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmdk"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"

ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

usb.present = "TRUE"

sound.present = "TRUE"

sound.virtualDev = "es1371"

sound.fileName = "-1"

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

displayName = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4"

guestOS = "rhel4"

nvram = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.nvram"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

uuid.location = "56 4d 44 b6 35 d8 63 e0-b7 eb 2d 68 92 bc bb 3c"

uuid.bios = "56 4d 44 b6 35 d8 63 e0-b7 eb 2d 68 92 bc bb 3c"

ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:bc:bb:3c"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

sound.startConnected = "FALSE"

checkpoint.vmState = ""

isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "TRUE"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

extendedConfigFile = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmxf"

ethernet0.connectionType = "hostonly"

Host and Guest could communicate with a bridge network but for some reasons they can't with Host-only enabled.

Regards

Joseph

[michaeldadmum]

You have deleted all the host-only virtual adapters in the network settings

[KevinG · Accepted solution]

1) I still do not see vmnet1 or vmnet8 in the output of " ipconfig /all " from the Windows XP host.

2) Your Linux gust has an IP that is on the same subnet as the host. This would not be the case if you want to use host-only networking.

Looks like you need to read the VMware Workstation documentation on how to configure virtual networking.

[tigermanIT]

Thanks Kevin,

now it works with your advices

[KevinG]

Cool