Monday, November 10, 2008

Quick fix to solve network connectivity problem in vmware guest virtual machine

This is a quick fix to vmware network virtualization.

Sometime while using vmware, your guest virtual machine may face the problem with network connectivity. I have this problem with two of my virtual machines the other day. Only one of the virtual machines is able to connect to the network. (By the way, both are created using same image) After trouble shooting for a while (such as changing the physical address of Ethernet, restarting it, or changing the network type to bridge or host-only networking and so on), I decided to add in an extra network interface to one of the virtual machine. After that I removed the existing Ethernet interface from it. Surprisingly these steps solved my problem.

These steps fixed my problem so far. Anyway, I still do not know why it work, maybe it is one of the bugs with vmware.

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