In VMware Esxi 7.0.3. It is possible to edit the host name, IP address, and DNS of an OVF template after it has been created using an external script,
I need to automate the editing of a virtual machine's hostname and DNS IP address through a script instead of manual methods. I am utilizing VMware ESXi 7.0.3, VMware Player 17, and Windows 10 as my operating system
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I have installed and configured Hyper-V on my Laptop with Windows 10 Professional. I have as well one VM with Ubuntu 16.04 OS. My Problem is that I do not know how to access Windows 10 host Shared Folders from the Ubuntu Guest, when it is offline / not connected to Internet, which means when it has no IP address assigned. Here, I wish to keep automatic IP Address assigning (DHCP) enabled, as the laptop has only one NIC (WiFi).
The Ubuntu 16.04 has installed SAMBA. I can access shared folders of the Windows 10 Host when the host has IP Address assigned.
However, I am not always connected to the internet. When without internet I still want to access the host from the VM guest OS. For those moments I do not want to assign temporary IP Address to he WiFi NIC. I would like to have more elegant solution.
Is there a way to assign secondary IP Address to my laptop/host (this time static)? This IP Address would be used only for the guest OS to see the host at all the times, regardless of whether the host has dynamically assigned IP address or not.
Is there any other solution for my problem? Thank you many times.
Ok, I have found the solution for those having similar problem:
In Hyper-V Manager create one more Virtual Switch, this time Internal Virtual Switch.
In the host OS, here Windows 10, edit the newly created Virtual Switch and assign desired IP Address and Subnet Mask.
Since we need to communicate between Host and Guest only, there is no need to enter Default Gateway.
Save your settings, restart the Guest OS.
Now you will be able to ping the Host OS from the VM Guest OS, whether host is online or offline. Great!
I have a virtual machine with Windows 8 running. This VM is configured as a shared network with my Macbook Pro. From my Macbook Pro, where i'm running the VM I can access the ip address over the network.
But when I try to access it on a different computer in the network I can't access it. When I change my network configuration to bridged I can access it, but when i'm on another location, the ip address of the VM is changed. And thats not what I want.
Solution to this problem was that i needed to add ".local" after the hostname. For example my VM has a hostname "CoolMachine", the url in the browser wil be "CoolMachine.local" :)
I have a windows 2003 VM running on my windows xp machine.
The machine name of the VM is itdom.domain.com
The windows xp host machine is disconnected from the LAN.
I want to be able to connect to the VM from the host and vice versa using there computer names. For example the URL http://itlab.domain:7080/domainsm must be accessible from the host computer.
Is there any configuration that I can do on any of the machine to do this.
Just because you have no physical network connection doesn't stop you setting up networking on the host and guest machines. One way of doing this is to add an IP address to the host machine's physical network port and create a bridged network on that port so that the guest can also see it.
You don't say which VM technology you are using, but in many of them you can setup an internal network between the host and guest. All you need to do then is edit each hosts file to add a hostname for the IP address of the other machine. You may also need to configure firewalls to allow access between the two.
No doubt there are also other ways to achieve this.
I am using Virtual PC 2007 with Windows xp Pro as the Guest.
Is it possible to add the Virtual PC to the network of the guest PC and to the domain of the Guest PC?
I enabled NAT shared networking but that only allows internet access on the guest..
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This shouldn't be a problem when you add the guest to host's physical adapter:
In the settings for your VM, go to Networking and instead of "Shared networking (NAT)", select the NIC that's connected to the network on your host (e.g. "Realtek RTL8116 Gigabit Ethernet", or whatever your NIC is; this is equivalent to VMWare's Bridged Mode). That way, the guest will appear as a real computer on your network, and will work like a physical box on the network.
IIRC, MS VPC bypasses the default Windows firewall on the host, so only the guest's firewall applies; for other FW products, you may need to enable something like "permit packets not destined for this host".
Just to add to the above answer-
1.
Inside the Local Area Connection
Properties- VM Network Services Driver
wasnt installed without which the NIC
option wont appear in the Virtual
machine Network Adapter Configuration.
I reinstalled the Virtual PC and that
entry Virtual Machine Network
Driver appeared.
2.
Another helpful resource-
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2007/01/15/fixing-broken-virtual-networking.aspx
Shouldn't be a problem as long as you can connect to a domain controller from the virtual computer.
If you know the IP address of a domain controller, try to ping it. Then try to ping it using the computer name, to see if name resolution is working correctly. What happens when you join a domain using Control Panel | System. Do you receive an error message?
I have not used Virtual PC, only VMWare workstation on Linux, so I do not know how the networking setup is on Virtual PC. On VMWare, you can choose between bridged and NAT networking for a virtual machine. I have been able to set up Windows guest computers as members of a windows domain using both kinds of network setup.
I can't access my host machine from my guest machine using the computer name (i.e. WINS). I can access it using whatever IP address it happens to have at the time, but I need a consistent way of accessing it (even if I'm not online).
I have a Windows Server 2003 guest virtual machine and a Vista host. I'm using Shared Networking (NAT). I'm running Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1. I've set my DNS server to 192.168.131.254 and everything else is DHCP. Any help is appreciated.
Make a domain name in the windows hosts file on the Vista Host system:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
172.16.16.4 localserver
Here is the blog that explains it:
http://blog.flexuous.com/2007/02/04/virtual-pc-ip-routing-enabling-vpc-nat-loopback-connector-at-the-same-time/
You didn't mention the network setup. If you happen to control the router, such as a home network, you've got a couple of options.
Dynamic DNS updates. When a host gets it's IP address via DHCP, it can automatically update it's DNS records with it's hostname. This is similar to services such as dyndns, but also works on your local network without net access.
Static DHCP Assignments - Assign an IP address to MAC Address relationship on the router, so that every time a DHCP request is sent out from that MAC, it will always get the same IP address. Then you can add this address to your hosts file for access via name.
Another option would be to setup a static loopback device on both the host and the guest and place them in their own private network. That way, the IP address will never change. Then, you can add the corresponding IP addresses into the host files of each respective machine to reference by name.