I’m currently in the process of TRYING to set up two VMware servers on my workstation at home. I have no clue what I am doing!!!
I installed v11, and am immediately confused. I tried editing the network, and was immediately stunned to see that the default IP addresses were NOT in the same network as I set up, at home.
At home, everything internal begins with IP 192.168.20, but the VMware assigned itself 192.168.232 and 192.168.233. Can my laptop in 192.168.2 access the .232 and .233 range?
I’m trying to set it so that one VM is a web server, one VM is a db server, and then my laptop (separate from the desktop that will host the VMs) will be a development system.
I tried to change the IP addresses to be in line with my network, and got an error message about the subnet mask not matching (my internal network subnet is 255.255.255.0; the VM had the same, so I’m not sure how that didn’t match.)
Can you give me the specifics of your laptop? What is it running? Linux or Windows? I’m tempted to try and setup VMWare but I want to do it within a virtual machine… (might not be a great idea, but I really don’t want it on my personal machines… I just quit using it years ago)
Okay… so, as I understand it, I need to set it for “bridged” connection, so the VMs will use my network DHCP to grab an IP address.
Tried that, but I guess I did the wrong one?? IDK. I’m confused. Why (from the initial installation) do I have three items in the network editor for VM?
It starts out with two, but when I click on “advanced” to make changes, a third one appears!! Which one do I set as “bridged”?
Sorry, @cpradio… I had a lot to do, last night after work, and tonight isn’t looking any better. I’ll try to get screencaps as soon as I can.
Someone I work with suggested that I just delete all the default network stuff and create one from scratch. I’ll try to get a screencap BEFORE it gets to that point.