I have used VMware-Server in the past on RHEL/Fedora host where the VM's were also RHEL/Fedora.
I used NAT mode and was able to ssh between the VM's and host pretty easily
Thinking on similar lines, I installed VMware-Server on Ubuntu host(running lucid lynx) and the guest image is Maverick(10.10), but I am not able to ssh/ping the guest machine from my host, in NAT mode. I can't use any other mode because of network issues
Though reverse is working perfect, ie from Guest to Host
There are no blocking firewalls on any of the machines
Ifconfig snippets:
On host machine:
vmnet8 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr
inet addr:172.16.8.1 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1
RX packets:1735552815 errors:1952796207 dropped:3335771059 overruns:778531439 frame:803696582
TX packets:1701996079 errors:1802661751 dropped:796026215 overruns:2004116814 carrier:1320203688
collisions:1867543411 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1936024677 (1.9 GB) TX bytes:1886352491 (1.8 GB)
On guest machine:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:f4:6f:93
inet addr:172.16.8.128 Bcast:172.16.8.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fef4:6f93/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21197 (21.1 KB) TX bytes:27212 (27.2 KB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
Routing table:
On host machine:
route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.73.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
172.16.8.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
192.168.5.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 wlan0
0.0.0.0 192.168.5.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
On guest machine:
route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
172.16.8.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 172.16.8.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
I am able to ping vmnet8 on host
VM has the address, 172.16.8.128 and its nameserver is 172.16.8.2
VM is able to ping both the nameserver and host machine (192.168.5.102)
But host machine is still not able to ping the VM
Also ran traceroute on both VM and Host machine:
On VM (gets answer in 2 Hops)
$traceroute 192.168.5.102
traceroute to 192.168.5.102 (192.168.5.102), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 172.16.8.2 (172.16.8.2) 0.971 ms 0.119 ms 0.121 ms
2 192.168.5.102 (192.168.5.102) 0.212 ms 0.169 ms 0.164 ms
On Host (takes 30 hops and fails)
$ traceroute 172.16.8.128
traceroute to 172.16.8.128 (172.16.8.128), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 * * *
2 * * *
3 * * * ...
cat /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf | egrep -v "[[:space:]]*#|[[:space:]]*$"
ip = 172.16.8.2
netmask = 255.255.255.0
device = /dev/vmnet8
activeFTP = 1
allowAnyOUI = 1
timeout = 60
Any ideaz how to get this working ??