Hello and Good Day,
I have done a fair amount of research today and have seen people have this problem with older versions of VMWare, but I don't see anyone having this problem with the current version (5.0.1). I have tried every configuration and I cannot get two virtual machines to communicate together. I am studying for my the Microsoft 70-640 exam, and I have a fair amount of networking experience.
My configuration:
VMPlayer 5.0.1 build-894247
I am using VMPlayer on Windows 7 SP1.
I have one nic card installed (Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller) (IP:192.168.2.10/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 192.168.2.1)
Two Virtual Machines running Windows Server 2008, fresh install, only changing network configurations
Different configurations that I have attempted:
Bridged Network Connection on both VM's With IP's (IP:10.0.0.10/24 & 10.0.0.11/24) - Tried to ping each other, nothing (Request timed out).
I then changed to my local network:
Bridged Network Connection on both VM's With IP's (IP:192.168.2.50/24 & 192.168.2.51/24) - Tried to ping each other, nothing. However I can ping my router (192.168.2.1) and my host computer (192.168.2.10) and a linux server (192.168.2.60). But I can not get each VM to ping each other, or connect to setup a proper domain. I also disabled my local firewall, and nothing.
I attempted the excact same two configurations setup as NAT within each vitural machine, and Host-Only within each virtual machine. (Just trying every possible configuration)
What could I possibly be missing?
Any help would be great. I'm currently downloading VirtualBox to try agian, but I really don't like VirtualBox at all.
Under my network cards I have:
VMware Network Adapter VMnet1
VMware Network Adapter VMnet8
I've looked at the settings and attempted to configure them to reflect my NAT or Host-Only configurations, but I'm not quite sure how they relate to the two VM's communicating.
Thank You!!!!!!