Yesterday I setup an ESXi guest within a VMware Workstation host. Connected the guest to a custom network and ensured that a virtual adapter for this network is created on the host. Assigned IPs etc but whatever I do I couldn’t get the host and the guest to ping each other. Disabled firewalls, fiddled with the routes, no luck!<\/p>\n
Finally I realized I had enabled a VLAN on the ESXi guest management interface. Doh! Even though both are on the same subnet, placing them on different VLAN means they are on a different network from each other and so obviously can’t communicate with each other unless you have a router in between! <\/p>\n
I tried to set the VMware virtual adapter on the host to a different VLAN but couldn’t find any tools for doing. There are 802.1q drivers for supported physical adapters (and also for the “e1000” virtual network adapter for guests<\/a>) that let you assign VLANs but I couldn’t find anything for the virtual adapter on the host side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I setup an ESXi guest within a VMware Workstation host. Connected the guest to a custom network and ensured that a virtual adapter for this network is created on the host. Assigned IPs etc but whatever I do I couldn’t get the host and the guest to ping each other. Disabled firewalls, fiddled with … Continue reading Unable to access to VMware Workstation guest from the host?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[183,85],"tags":[185,184],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}