Cannot establish network link between host and VM on Hyper-V - networking

I'm having trouble creating a network link between my Hyper-V host machine and its VM (both are running Windows 10).
I created an virtual external switch for both the host and VM so that both can access the internet and download programs and Windows updates, but I could not get them to communicate with each other directly. My research told me to create a virtual internal switch in Hyper-V and then have the devices be able to access each other that way (presumably by doing something like typing \\host_machine_IP\c$ into an explorer window once the network connection had been made). But once I created the virtual internal switch and assigned static IP address to both the host and VM on it, I still could not ping the host from the VM, or vice versa.
Am I missing a step? Let me know what more details you guys need.

By default you would have Windows Firewall blocking your communications until you confirm network profile to be other than Public. Try selecting a home\work network location profile via Control Panel > Network and Sharing canter. Or disable the firewall on the machine you try connecting to. Otherwise you should have no communication problem with the setup described, provided the subnet is the same for both machines.

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Connect to virtual machine through bridged port

In my setup, I have a virtual machine in VMWare for development purposes using a bridged adapter. I can connect to it from another computer, but not from the host machine. My host is located at 192.168.1.16 and the guest is 192.168.1.10. Both can connect to the internet, but not to eachother. Upon pinging one IP from the other, I get a Request timed out from my host (Windows 10) and Destination Host Unreachable from the guest (Ubuntu Server 16.04.1). Is this a limitation of the bridged connector? Or is there some config that I have missed in making this happen?
EDIT: I am connected to my router using an ethernet cable, and the network is listed as a 'private' one
Can you connect to your host computer from the other (Non-VM) computer?
This sounds to me like your host computer is blocking incoming and outgoing pings which is probably a firewall issue. Try ensuring that you're on a "private" network instead of a "public" network.
The best way to check is by going to the Network and Sharing Center and looking for your bridged adapter. If it says Private network (or Domain network) That's not your problem. If it says Public network, you'll have to change it.
The easiest way to change it is to make sure that's the only network you're connected to and go to "Network" (Just type it in the address bar of any explorer window) A yellow bar will drop down telling you that you're not allowing file sharing on public networks. Click on it and you can get a box that lets you either share files on public networks (NO!!!) or change the network you're connected to, to a private network. (Yes!)
Hope that fixes your problem!

Configuring vmware networking to access static IP

I have a dedicated virtual debian server running with my website, and now have a copy of that so that I can try some configurations by running it virtually on my own PC. It runs fine, but I'm unable to access the machine through http.
The problem is that my machine has a fixed ip, something like 194.247.x.x . My home network however has computers in the range of 192.168.1.x
Is it possible to not change anything in my virtual machine and still configure vmware networking so that I'm able to access the websites it's running?
The only way I can see this happening for you is to use NAT (Network Address Translation) between your home network and your VM.
To do this, you could use a free software based router - something like Vyatta (www.vyatta.org) - and create a VM with two NICs - one with an IP on your home network, and the other with an IP on the same network as your VM. You then configure NAT to translate your home IP to your web server IP and then you're done.
There's nothing 'de-facto' VMware that will allow you to do this (other than using vShield - which will do NAT'ing anyway)...

Connect to VM running on the same computer without LAN

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.

Connect to server in vmware player while host is not connected to a network

I am using VMWare Player 3.1.0 on Host OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. My guest is is SUSE Linux ES 10. My guest OS (SUSE) runs JBoss App Server which I access from host using HTTP. I used a "Bridged" connection to set up all this.
My problem:
When I am connected to network on the Host (using wired network adapter) I can connect to the http server on the Guest OS and browse the application. However, when I am disconnected from the network on Host (unplugged the wire), I cannot access to the guest OS app server and browse the application. I use the guest OS ifconfig command to find out ip address of the guest OS. This ip address does not change whether connected or disconnected. I have even tried using Wireless Data card, but that does not work either.
I have tried "NAT" as well as "Host Only" connection and rebooted the guest but it does not work either. I think for some reason the guest OS can only recognize the physical network card (which is disconnected).
I need to run this machine (my laptop) independently of the network because I use this for demo and need to be able to connect from my host OS to Guest OS.
I am not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do, but I do know setting up a working NAT configuration will offer you the most flexibility.
Click the networking icon and select settings, Select NAT.
Follow these steps on your Unix OS
cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Make a backup of your ethernet adapter configuration
cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0.bak
Next modify the settings to look like the following:
DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
HWADDR="What ever was here on your system"br/>
NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
ONBOOT="yes"
Save your changes
Restart your network adapters
/etc/init.d/network restart
Try nslookup www.google.com
You should now be able to connect back and forth from your Windows Host and Linux guest.
theJay28
-p.s. I had screenshots, but I do not have the 10 points yet to post images.
I figured that the solution is to restart the VM after making the changes to the NetWork setting on the VMWare. I selected Network for the VM as "Host Only" shutdown the VM and started it again. After that I was able to do what I wanted to do (i.e. browse the web application on guest from the browser in the host machine) without connecting the host to the network.
So key to the solution in my case was to make the network changes and restart the VM.
Any comments suggestions welcome...

adding Virtual PC 2007 to host network

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..
Thanks
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.

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