

Select File and Printer Sharing for both Private and Public network.Ĭheck the network connection between the Client1 and Client2 machines again by pinging. If you do not have administrator rights in the window that opens, click Change Settings. In the Firewall window, click Allow an application or feature to switch to Windows Firewall. On the Desktop, click Control Panel, and then click Windows Firewall. Likewise, Ping from Client2 to Client1 machine.īecause Ping is failing, you need to check the Windows Firewall. Test the network connection by pinging from Client1 to Client2. The DHCP server is the local DHCP service of VMware. Similarly, the IP address assigned to the Client2 machine is 192.168.209.129.Īs you can see, Client1 and Client2 virtual machines have received IP addresses via DHCP from the VMnet IP address block configured by default in Virtual Network Editor. When you view the image below, you can see that Client1 machine has received the IP address of 192.168.209.130. To check the IP address assigned to the Client1 machine, execute ipconfig at the CMD prompt. Run the machines after setting the network settings of both machines.

power up your vm, and wala your rhel8 box should be identifying and loading drivers for your rhel8 vm.Also, configure the other Client2 machine. go back into settings and add your 2 NIC's I use a NAT (i set up static routes to reach local vpn networks), and a Bridged (to bypass work VPN that hijacks my local nic.)ħ. this will modify your vmx file accordingly.Ħ. blow away your old attached network interface cardsĥ. (this will tell workstation to use the correct vmxnet3 driver under ethernet1.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" for all of the interfaces you will attach.Ĥ. Set your virtual machine to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. go to vmsettings / select options tab at the top.ģ. my OS build was using vmware workstation 14 and later upgraded to 16.1 which still didn't support rhel8 officially.Ģ. Today I learned that vmwareWorkstation 16.2.3 lists rhel8 as the os type. It broke when Rhel went to 8.4 for me as it did for many other people. I've done those various edit the vmname.vmx file and gotten it to work in the past.
