Comments on: Allow Access to a VMware Virtual Machine(NAT) From Another Computer

By: vaish

vaish — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:59:05 +0000

i have got a virtual machine on a windowsserver 2003 platform…through vm editor i have done the port mapping with local host .but now iam not getting the webpage on local host it self by typing http:\\localhost:8080…help me out…

By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:55:34 +0000

Hi All the localhost ip on the machine itself is 127.0.0.1 its the loopback address. if you are trying to use ip for localhost you should use 127.0.0.1 or change this setting at DriveLetter-Windows-system32-drivers-etc as Rehan said and user host machine’s hostname.

Hope this helps.

By: Felix

Felix — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:25:00 +0000

I setup up my port forwarding in vmware from host port 8080 to vm port 80 but like the others on this forum I could only connect to the guest vm using http://localhost:8080 and not 10.64.9.12:8080 on local host or over the network. I have my firewall turned off also.

Is there anything else that might block this? It seems my vmware is setup correctly but there is something else I am not doing.

Errol

By: Rehan Yousuf

Rehan Yousuf — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:17:03 +0000

Sudhakar,

I do not know what other machine OS you are using, but on windows hosts file located in DriveLetter-Windows-system32-drivers-etc. add this line
Xxx.Xxx.Xxx.Xxx VMmachinename
Change xxx to vm guest ip address and VMmachine name.

-Rehan

By: sudhakar Mani

sudhakar Mani — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:39:43 +0000

I am able to access the Linux VM Guest from the host machine.But I couldn’t access this from any other machines on the LAN.

For Example : My virtual machine Ip is 192.168.79.32(NAT)

I could access this from my host machine : http://192.168.79.32:8005

But if I try the same from another machine on the lan I couldn’t.Even I couldn’t ping 192.168.79.32 from LAN.

By: shopank

shopank — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:12:37 +0000

anybody there plz help me!!

By: shopank

shopank — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:13:00 +0000

it’s very cool tips here which you mentioned here which i honestly say even i was not available in vmware forum. ok i did all this configuration step by step but still i cant access the webserver in my host browser!!?
in both , host & guest, the fire wall is off & maped the port for forwarding as mentioned above, & restart the vmware & still not working?(the vmware is in NAT connection mode)
i wish someone can help me bcz it’s being one week that i struggling with this problem

By: Nima

Nima — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:56:29 +0000

You should config firewall on ur host machine to open ports that NATed to the guest VM.

By: GK

GK — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:17:04 +0000

I follow the above example and update the NAT thru vmcfg. However, when I try http://localhost:8080 on the host pc. It does not work. What did I miss ?

By: jonw

jonw — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:53:10 +0000

Good tutorial. Is there a way to access a webserver or ssh server running on a virtual machine from the internet (outside the local network)? I’d really love to see an indepth article about this.