Can t ping a local VM from the host

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My work laptop is is a member of a domain  the OS is Windows 8   Created a new VM  locally on this laptop  using built-in Hyper-V   DHCP is provided by the domain and all IP addresses are assigned by the DHCP  both to the host and to the VM  The VM is not a member of the domain  just a member of the WORKGROUP  Trying to ping a local VM from the host  Pinging by machine name does not work  Pinging by IP address works just fine  Both host OS and the VM are on the same sub-network   The IP addresses change every time I reconnect the laptop to office network  I would like to avoid the pain of using different IP s all the time   Is there anything I can do on my end to make names resolution work  Adding the VM to the domain is not an option

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On top of using a bridged connection  I had to turn on Find Devices and Content on the VM s Windows Server 2012 control panel network settings  Hope this helps somebody as none the other answers worked to ping the VM machine

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I had a similar issue  You won t be able to ping the VM s from external devices if using NAT setting from within VMware s networking options   I switched to bridged connection so that the guest virtual machine will get it s own IP address and and then I added a second adapter set to NAT for the guest to get to the Internet

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I had the same issue  Fixed it by adding a static route on my host to my VM via the VMnet8 adapter   route ADD VM addr MASK 255 255 255 255  VMnet8 addr  As previously mentioned  you need a bridged connection

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The issue could be that the VM is connected to the network via NAT  You need to set the network adapter of the VM to a bridged connection so that the VM will get it s own IP within the actual network and not on the LAN on the host

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try to drop the firewall on your laptop and see if there is difference  Maybe Your laptop is firewall blocking some broadcasts that prevents local network name resolution

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Maybe your VMnet8 ip is not in the same network segment  e g   my vm ip is 192 168 71 105  I can ping my windows in vm  but can t ping vm in windows  so this time you may check if vmnet8 is configured right  IP  192 168 71 1

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Try dropping all the firewall  the one from your VM and the one from you Laptop  or add the rule in your firewall where you can ping

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I know this is an old post  but I ran into this same issue with my VMs  Log into the VM and go to Control Panel   System and Security   Windows Firewall   Allowed Apps  Then check all of the boxes next to  File and Printer Sharing  to enable file sharing  This should allow you to ping the VM  The screenshot below is from a 2016 Windows Server but the same method will work on older ones

[windows-8] Can't ping a local VM from the host

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