If you happen to be running a VMWare Server instance on a machine with multiple network cards, make sure that when you upgrade you reconfigure which network cards your VMs should use, otherwise you may find that despite the fact that the network interface in the VM is up you have no network access. It usually reports "No route to host" or "Destination Host Unreachable". Sadly, VMWare doesn't seem to be too bright about how it picks network interfaces and will sometimes pick one that isn't connected to anything.
Oh well, it's only the second time I've wasted hours to discover this. Hopefully the next time I run into this problem, this entry will turn up in Google and remind me of why.
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Steve Loughran says:
mmm, Vmware is very tetchy on laptops, where the cards are changing all the time. It only really works properly if you set up a private LAN between nodes, with no big network at all.
Rick Harrowell says:
Thanks for this. Until I saw this post, I had no clue as to why I had no bridged networking on VMWare Player on my notebook. My notebook is usally networked via its wireless network, whereas VMware was trying to network via my (unconected) 100BaseT network adapter. For the player, the cure is to run “vmnetcfg.exe” in the VMWare program folder. Turn the automatic bridging OFF, and set VMnet0 to the working network adapter.
Joe Pluta says:
AJ, I owe you a beverage. You just saved me a boatload of trouble. This is the best top I’ve received all year!
Joe Pluta says:
Ugh. Best TIP I’ve read. Gz.
It’s very late on New Year’s Day for me…
Joe
Debmalya Jash says:
In my own machine VMware is running properly. My vmware ip address is 192.168.189.128. I installed vmware player in other machine. Then copied my *.vmx files. After successful installation of vmware. I opened virtual machine with my Solaris 10 64-bit.vmx. I found in the new machine ip address is same as my one. I tried pinging from DOS prompt. Got the error destination host unreachable.
I executed vmnet.cfg I found
DHCP settings of VMNet8
Start IP address 192.168.126.128
End IP address 192.168.126.254
DHCP settings for VMNet1
Start IP address 192.168.127.128
End IP address 192.168.127.254
VMNet host is VMNet8
So in the new machine VMware ip address should be some thing like 192.168.126.X
This is the first time I am working with VMware. I have to used *.vmx file of my VMware. Looking the way to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance for your help, suggestions.