Comments on: VMWare: Windows 2003 Host, CentOS 5 Guest – Bridged Networking

By: John

John — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:16:46 +0000

Was this ever resolved? I am running into the same problem using softlayer.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:09:04 +0000

Sami,

If you are pinging by IP then it’s not DNS.

Is the IP you assign to the guest assigned to you by SoftLayer? Confirm with them the usable IP addresses to be sure.

Cheers

By: Sami

Sami — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:18:25 +0000

i have dedicated server on softlayer testing on it . i have 2 interfaces “public / private interface ) i mapped vmnet0 to public one , i have 1 vm on the host

New hint : i can ping the host ip but i cant ping any public ip . guessing its dns problem

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:01:33 +0000

Sami,

How are you testing? How many interfaces does your host have? How many does you guest have? What are your virtual network mappings? Any firewall on your host?

There can be many factors why this will not work, you might need to trace them one by one from host to mapping to guest and back.

Cheers

By: Sami

Sami — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:54:54 +0000

i’am using vmware workstation 7.0.1 .

Thanks

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:53:12 +0000

Sami,

I never needed to make any registry changes on the host nor the guest. What VMWare version are you using?

Cheers

By: Sami

Sami — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:48:46 +0000

Thanks for your reply , i try that but no success
Host : windows server 2003
guest : windows xp

may i must made some registry modification like IPENABLEROUTER one in the registry key Tcpip\Parameters to 1 ? or enable Routing and Remote Access Service ? is that true ?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:16:47 +0000

Sami,

Depends on which adapter VMNet0 is mapped to. If it is mapped to the host interface with the main IP, then it must have the same netmask as the main IP. Same goes with the supplemental IPs.

Cheers!

By: Sami

Sami — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:00:36 +0000

Hi dear , i want to ask you what if the main IP have netmask different than additional IP’s on the server ? example :

Main ip : 179.166.11.155
netmask : 255.255.255.248
default gateway : 179.166.11.88

Additional IP’S is 74.13.22.68 ~ 80
netmask : 255.255.255.0

So what is the guest os network setting ?

Thanks for your topic !