Connecting to a VM over a network...

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Alright, so I am new to Virtural Machines and I want to connect to one via network.

Basically I setup a clone of my dedicated box as a virtual machine on my main computer. This way I can test things before I do it on the live box. I also intend to develop some things, so I'd rather test it locally first. What I have done is setup the Linux CentOS VM. I have then installed a Killing Floor dedicated server on this VM. Now I want to connect to that server, on the VM, from my primary computer. However I have no idea how.. Looking at "LAN Servers" in the games tabs doesn't report anything.

How can I accomplish this? :eek:
 
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Uh... not sure what you are asking. I'm a newb at this.

I simply opened VMWare, started a new VM with a Linux ISO. Hope that answers the question.
 
Skillz said:
Uh... not sure what you are asking. I'm a newb at this.

I simply opened VMWare, started a new VM with a Linux ISO. Hope that answers the question.
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Which vmware product are you using?

player, workstation, server?
 
I'm guessing that you need to change the network adapter on the VM to bridged instead of NAT.

I can't remember what it looked like but its similar to this.


but if you cloned the machine you'll probably want to change the host name before you do.
 
Shockey said:
Which vmware product are you using?

player, workstation, server?
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Player, sorry.

codegrinder said:
I'm guessing that you need to change the network adapter on the VM to bridged instead of NAT.

I can't remember what it looked like but its similar to this.


but if you cloned the machine you'll probably want to change the host name before you do.
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I did set it up to bridge mode. Still didn't make a difference. :eek:

Wasn't a direct clone, just the same server setup.
 
The only firewall I am running is Windows Firewall on the Windows 7 machine.

The only "firewall" on the Linux VM is iptables and it's open.

I do know the IP isn't the same subnet as my own. Its 192.168.17.1; where as my physical networks IPs are all 192.168.1.xx

Could that be causing the issue?
 
Skillz said:
Alright, so I am new to Virtural Machines and I want to connect to one via network.

Basically I setup a clone of my dedicated box as a virtual machine on my main computer. This way I can test things before I do it on the live box. I also intend to develop some things, so I'd rather test it locally first. What I have done is setup the Linux CentOS VM. I have then installed a Killing Floor dedicated server on this VM. Now I want to connect to that server, on the VM, from my primary computer. However I have no idea how.. Looking at "LAN Servers" in the games tabs doesn't report anything.

How can I accomplish this? :eek:
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So you have a killing floor client that needs to connect to the killing floor server?

(never played killing floor so not sure what it is)
 
Skillz said:
The only firewall I am running is Windows Firewall on the Windows 7 machine.

The only "firewall" on the Linux VM is iptables and it's open.

I do know the IP isn't the same subnet as my own. Its 192.168.17.1; where as my physical networks IPs are all 192.168.1.xx

Could that be causing the issue?
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yup. its not in bridged mode then
 
Hagrid said:
So you have a killing floor client that needs to connect to the killing floor server?

(never played killing floor so not sure what it is)
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Sorry for not being specific. Killing Floor is a video game based on the Unreal Engine. I have a dedicated server running on the VM to host the game.

I am trying to connect to that host from my client.

codegrinder said:
yup. its not in bridged mode then
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I have it selected to

Bridged connection direclty to the physical network
>Replicate physical network connection state.

Both of those are marked. I rebooted the VM after those changes.
 
huh, I've never had it not work. You could try removing that nic from the VM and re-adding it. But if its not getting the same lan address range as your desktop its not really working.
 
I had to leave. Ill try when I get back. Just so im clear, I need to remove it from windows device manager right?
 
Still showing an IP of 192.168.17.1

I deleted the network adapter, then added it again; Bridged the connection then clicked add.

Rebooted the VM.

Checked in Windows CMD: ipconfig

Showing an IP address 192.168.17.1.

I even setup the property in Windows to obtain IP automatically, then released the adapters and renewed them. It still assigned itself 192.168.17.1.
 
Yes I do.

After doing some more digging around, I've discovered the IP address when I type ipconfig in the windows command prompt isn't the IP for the VM.
Code: 
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : localdomain
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::41df:f92c:db2b:549a%17
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.17.1
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

If use the ifconfig within' the Linux VM, I get an IP address of 192.168.1.104. I confirm this IP is being leased by the DHCP server on my router by logging into my router and looking at the DHCP clients list. IP 192.168.1.104 is listed.

I can confirm that I can ping 192.168.1.104 from my Windows command prompt.
I can confirm that I can ping my Windows IP from the Linux VM terminal.

I can NOT connect to the server running on the Linux VM from within' the game, Killing Floor. I can't even see it listed under "LAN Servers" and manually adding the IP 192.168.1.104 returns nothing. Connecting directly to IP 192.168.1.104 through the console eventually times out.

I have completely shut down the iptables within' the Linux VM. Running the following commands:
/etc/init.d/iptables save
/etc/init.d/iptables stop

I'm at a loss.
 
Problem solved, sort of.

I can access the VM from within' Windows. I can join the server from my game client, the problem is everytime I try to, it crashes the server. Whatever the issue it, it's not related to the VM; so I'm gonna have to do some digging to see why the server crashes when I try to join it.

Thanks guys.
 
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