I got VMWare Workstation 10 installed on a host of Windows 7, which has two NICs. The first NIC was connected to a router with DHCP turned on, and the second connected directly to the modem provided by ISP and been set a static IP address. I also edited the second NIC in the Virtual Network Editor as a Bridged custom netowork. On top of VMWare, I installed two guest servers: Windows 2003 and Windows 2012 R2. The problem came with Windows 2012 installation. When I set the networking of guest Windows 2012 as DHCP, everything was fine. However, when I redirected the guest Windows 2012's networking to the second NIC of the host, and assigned another static IP address (also provided by ISP) to the guest, then the guest Windows 2012 could not get connected to the internet, and it become unidentified network. However, both settings on guest Window s 2003 were perfectly fine. I am confused whether there are something I missed on Windows 2012 settings. Please kindly help how to resolve this?
Hi Joey,
Thanks for trying VMware Workstation!
I tried to reproduce this on my own environment, but can't see the issue.
To help investigate further, could you please provide more detailed infomation?
After the Win2012R2 is configured to be static IP, can it ping the gateway successfully?
Thanks!
Xinda
Hi, Xinda,
Thank you for your responses. The Win2012R2 I downloaded is an evaluation copy. I don't know if that matters. I configured Win2012R2 to static IP (which my ISP provided), but I couldn't ping the gateway (which is also provided by my ISP). However, the ISP said that the address were correctly set. I don't know where it went wrong.
Thanks,
Joey
Hi Joey,
Thanks for your quick reply!
Do the 2 guest has exactly the same networking configuration including IP address?
Are the Win2012R2 guest and Win2003 guest powered on at the same time?
Just to make sure there is no IP confliction.
Thanks!
Xinda
Hi, Xinda,
These two guests were configured to two different static IP, but with the same gateway address. There were no IP conflict. The scenarios were Win2003 succeeded, while Win2012R2 failed. Even when we switched the static IP addresses, still WIn2003 worked, while Win2012R2 failed. Don't know why.
Thanks,
Joey
Hi, Xinda,
Here I I got another scenarios. As mentioned, I had one guest Win2003 (say A instance) which can get onto internet with static IP, and while another Win2012R2 cannot. I tried to install another Win2003 guest ( say B instance) to coexist with A. However, the B instance cannot get onto internet with static IP either, even though I configure the networking settings of B instance exactly the same as A instance. I really can't figure out why.
Thanks,
Joey
Hi Joey,
Sorry for the issue that bothers you...
I tried my best to reproduce the issue you have met.
Here are my steps:
1. Install a Win2003 guest, set up the default gateway and static IP which I got in my environment.
2. Install a Win2013R2 guest, set up the networking in guest with another static IP I got.
Try to ping the defaul gateway, they both work fine.
Only 1 question is that I can't browse the Internet using the default IE, I think it's caused by the WinServer security policy.
However, the 2 guests both got valid IPs...
Did you install VMtools in both guests?
Please be confirm that you have set your network as Bridge mode.
If you use bridge mode then you will get connection of your both NIC.
Take care!![]()
