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drloksoft
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Routing to "host only" virtual machines

Hi,

I have a virtual Windows 2003 machine (Let's call it SERVER) configured in a seperate LAN. Now I'd like to route over the Windows Vista VMware Workstation (let's call it WORKSTATION) traffic from my LAN to the SERVER. "IPEnableRouter" is turned on on WORKSTATION already, without any change. WORKSTATION is not routing the traffic.

Here's the config from SERVER (virtual machine):

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-CC-89-C4

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.86.11

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

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.86.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.86.1

Here's the setting from WORKSTATION (my Windows Vista host, which should route traffic accross LAN and virtual LAN):

Ethernet connection:

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-8C-2B-17-58

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4dd8:2bc3:acc0:cf88%11(Preferred)

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.71.175(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.128

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.71.129

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.71.130

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet2

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-02

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::78ac:13a6:cfec:4901%16(Preferred)

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.86.1(Preferred)

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

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

Any suggestions?

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joe1600
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hiii

can u expalin bit more,like u want to route between two guest vm within vmware wks using the host windows vista isnt.just post the route print and ipconfig outputs on all three amchines

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Joe

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AWo
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Welcome to the forums?

Is Vista able to route? I thought only Windows server OS are able to...

As far as I know Vista can only do NAT routing and if you use that you better use the VMware NAT function. What you need is a real LAN router. If you have a W2K3 server available as a guest you can create your router on this machine to route between physical and "host-only" network.


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