Vmware

[bangs777]

Hi everyone,
I am having trouble interconnecting Virtual machines(vm's) in my vmware wokstation 9.0. I have set all of them to LAN segment 1;prior to that they were all connected to a custom vmnet2. I want to construct a private lan inside vmware. I have already assigned a static ip for each;didn't assign any default gateway,since I want to make it a private lan,where I can configure DC,DNS etc.Well the problem undermining the circumstances arises out of the fact that pinging to another vm is unsuccessful for any of the vm. Beside that,there is no option for creating a team in vmware 9.0. Could anyone specify me where I went wrong;is a team necessary for a private lan,if so which version would you suggest?; else a detailed documentation of a step by step procedure will be much appreciated.

I need to hook it up asap;if anyone would kindly take his/her time in explaining to me my cons and help me set it up,it would be much appreciated.

[shaithis]

Two ways of doing it I think:

1. Configure one of the virtual networks for bridge mode. Then make each VM use it and manually set each VMs IP settings......the problem with this one is the traffic routing.

2. Use Host only networking. With this you should be able to create virtual switch (and DHCP server) and assign your VMs to it.

[Scainer]

I think you need to set the VM to use NAT rather than bridge mode. (custom VM setup maybe?)

What IP configuration are you using for each machine?
e.g. 192.168.0.1 /24 and 192.168.0.2 /24

[bangs777]

the funny thing is..using the custom vmnet 2/lan1 the vm's were all in a private vlan..i found it out later that pinging is sometimes not so responsive in win 7/server 2008..correct me if i am wrong..so it was working the whole time..i realized that after i made one them DC and rest its members..so it works..thanks people for all the suggestions..