Unable to ping vmware guest from another vmware guest

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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   Also I m not able to ping neither guest1 nor guest2 from host   I m using VMWare Player 5   Host machine  Windows 7        Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8       Connection-specific DNS Suffix          Link-local IPv6 Address             fe80  dc81 34e2 779d 595d 19     IPv4 Address                        192 168 18 1     Subnet Mask                         255 255 255 0     Default Gateway                       Guest 1       Connection-specific DNS Suffix      localdomain     IP Address                          192 168 18 131     Subnet Mask                         255 255 255 0     Default Gateway                     192 168 18 2   Guest 2       Connection-specific DNS Suffix      localdomain     IP Address                          192 168 18 132     Subnet Mask                         255 255 255 0     Default Gateway                     192 168 18 2   Any suggestions   Thanks

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I know it is an old question  but I had a similar trouble recently  On VMware Workstation 12   go to Edit - gt  Virtual Network Editor    Select a network used by the problematic VM and make sure that  Connect a host virtual adapter to this network  checkbox is set for this network  In my case  it was not  After it was set  the host was able to ping the guest and guests were able to talk to each other

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Make network setting as Bridged   Enable VMCI  this enables hosts   guests to communicate with each other

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If i am understanding your question  You now have both VMs on the same network segment VMnet8    Enable file and print sharing from the firewall settings on both VMs Ensure that from the host machine  Windows 7  that the network adapter for VMnet8 is enabled  Also open the network adapter to check if you are actually connecting to VMnet8 network address  Then try to ping both addresses  If this still doesnt work  perform ipconfig all from host machine and paste the output here so that i can see how the network address are distributed    Thanks

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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

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In Menu bar      select the Host-  Virtual Network Settings -  Host Virtual Network Mapping      set your drop down list as your host Network Adapter   If You can not ping Check your Firewall Status Because the Firewall is blocked the  ping  packets

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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

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Check the firewall on all the windows system  If it s enabled  disable it  If you still are unable to ping  Open the virtual network editor and     check if you are using the same VMnet adapter for both the VM s      this adapter should be present in the host machine s network     adapters as well  Share a screenshot of what you are seeing in the     virtual network editor

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On both Operation Systems  must turnoff firewall  I using MS SERVER 2012 R2  amp  MS WIN-7 as a client  First of all call  RUN BOX  window logo button  R  once RUN box appeared type  firewall cpl  at Window Firewall setting you will see  Turn Window Firewall On or Off  like this you click it  amp  chose  turn off window firewall  on both Private and Public Setting then OK  Ping again on guests OS  GOOD-LUCK  Aungkokokhant

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Try installing VMware tools in guest operating system  Check if firewall is enable 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

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I just ran into the exact same problem while configuring my server 2008 and windows 7 vm s in  VMware workstation 9  what helped is disabling the firewall and running the following command at the windows command prompt  netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable  at that point I was able to ping one VM then both once I performed the command on both  this differnce between our scenarios is I have my VM configured using Bridged connections

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You can ping ip from one virtual machine to another machine by using these steps    Go to menu VM -  Setting -  select network adapter  NAT Go to menu VM -  setting -  select options Tab and select   Guest Isolation   ENABLED  ENABLED and select box   ENABLE VMCI

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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

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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

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