Unable to ping vmware guest from another vmware guest

Question

I would like to ping one vmware guest from another one. Both are Windows XP and use NAT. I set IP manually for VMnet8 to 192.168.18.1. (no using Obtain IP address automatically)

Answer 1

1. Make network setting as Bridged.
2. Enable VMCI (this enables hosts , guests to communicate with each other)

Answer 2

I have been able to ping from VMs and the host by setting the VM's network settings to "Bridged" mode. This, in short, places them all on the same physical network. This coupled with your static IP addresses should do the trick.

Answer 3

I would like to add, that yes. While using the NAT adapter settings in Vmware and turning off windows firewall I was able to ping other guest machines in my test environment.

Sidenote: Best practice would be to implement a hardware firewall in larger environments and turn off windows firewall on the Domain Controller.

Answer 4

There are several related solutions available on the internet, but it all depends on the configuration of the machine and the firewall rules.

For me below solution is worked:

• Disabled the VMware Network Adapter VMNet8
• Removed the network from the VM
• Enabled the VMware Network Adapter VMNet8
• Re-added the Network to VM, and set it to NAT
• Restarted the machine

Check this blog post for detailed solution.

Answer 5

I came to the same problem and tried all methods on internet, and finally worked it out by accident. May you could try this(see in the picture)

Answer 6

1. Try installing VMware tools in guest operating system.
2. Check if firewall is enable
3. If 1 and 2 are ok, try using share internet connection

After sharing connection the VMnet8 IP address will be changed to 192.168.137.1, set up the IP 192.168.18.1 and try again