How to connect one LAN Segment to the host network Workstation 7

[DanielFF]

Hi all.

This may be a really newbie question, but I'm pretty newbie on vmware :smileyhappy:

I setup a Team in VMWare Workstation 7 with a few virtual machines all assigned to a single Lan Segment. Everything is working fine, but now I need to have access to internet in my virtual machines. How do I do to configure the LAN segment to see my host network so I can ping internet?

Thanks a lot!

[continuum]

Thats not possible.

Thats why I would recommend NOT to use LAN-segments as it is not trivial to change this.

Easiest way: add another Nic to the VM that needs Internet connection and assign this Nic as NAT (vmnet8)

Hard way: open the vmx file of every Team-member and redefine the LAN-segment to use vmnet8 NAT.

Post a vmx-file if you want to go the hard way

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[DanielFF]

Hard way sounds interesting... a way to learn a little bit more:

Attached the VMX file for one Virtual machine

Attachment(s)

EM_OTROS.vmx   2 KB 1 version

[continuum]

Ok - see here - I sorted your vmx-file so that all ethernet0 entries appear nicely in a row.

This is what you have now:

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet0.connectionType = "pvn"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:c3:36:10"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.pvnID = "52 4c 5e 98 70 6a 82 1b-0f eb 97 5d 76 2e 8a 85"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

Next I list all the parameters you should NOT touch:

ethernet0.addressType

ethernet0.generatedAddress

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber

ethernet0.present

ethernet0.startConnected

ethernet0.virtualDev

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv

Whatever this settings are - leave them alone - don't change them for this for this task. After this only this two lines are left:

ethernet0.connectionType = "pvn"

ethernet0.pvnID = "52 4c 5e 98 70 6a 82 1b-0f eb 97 5d 76 2e 8a 85"

Those two are the ones that configure the LAN-segment.

Remove them and replace them with this single line

ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"

In case you want to break up the team remove this line

inVMTeam = "TRUE"

and delete the *.vmxf file in the same directory.

For more info about setting up network in the vmx-file read my site

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-network.html




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[DanielFF]

Thanks Continuum.

Modified two VMX files and tested.. they are now NATed and see ecah other as is suppose to be.

What's next to let this two machines see/share my host internet connection? Or it should work just by the fact now ara NAT?

[continuum]

should already work unless you disabled the NAT-service.

Open the Virtual Network Editor - or run vmnetcfg.exe

This will show current state of the services - post screenshot if you are unsure what to do

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[DanielFF]

NAT is up and running.

I'm not a network savvy, but I saw the gateway is set to 192.168.6.2 (See Clipboard01) and my virtual machine has static IP and is not the same family (see Clipboard02).

Should I change the gateway on the NAT side?

[continuum]

nope - NAT service will only work with private networks.

Your IP starting with 200.200 ... is a public IP - NAT service should not allow this.

If possible do not use static IPs and rather let the NAT-service assign them.

Or - use static IP in the range of 192.168.6.10 - 192.168.6.100

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[DanielFF]

mmm.. interesting..

The TEAM already has some services and software up and running.. changing the IPs is a major change at this moment..

What I can try is go back with some snapshots I have (before installing anything and even assigning IPs) and then try set private IPs and see if that works..

Thanks a lot for your help.... I really appreciate it!!!!!!

[continuum]

by the way ... the IP 200.200.8.10 is already used - it is assigned to some behind the bush location in Brazil

see yourself http://ip-address-lookup-v4.com/lookup.php?ip=200.200.8.10

You really should not use such IPs for a home/test network




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[DanielFF]

jejejej

I will change IPs ranges...