Many thanks for your response…Yes I had tried that and I also tried the procedure in your other post. In fact since I wrote the comment I’ve solved the problem.

I tracked back and started to make incremental changes for each vm. I first made a single change to dhcpd.conf for one vm, rebooted vmare services and was suprized to find I still had connectivity. I then incrementally made changes until I discovered that was causing the initial issue was having setup multiple entries for portforwrding using the same destination port.

e.g. this won’t work:

2222 = 172.16.151.100:22
2222 = 172.16.151.101:22
2222 = 172.16.151.102:22

even though the vms are never running at the same time.

but this will:

2224 = 172.16.151.100:22
2223 = 172.16.151.101:22
2222 = 172.16.151.102:22

So thanks again for your help,

Signed

A happy virtual camper

If that doesn’t work, let me know.

I have 3 development environments running under vmware fusion (2.0.7).

I’ve only just came across your article so I decided to try it out.

After making the required changes and restarting the vm services, the vm’s each come up with the correct ip, the ports are forwarded correctly, I can ssh into them from the host (i.e. host can see ubuntu guest) but for whatever reason I no longer have external network connectivity. i.e. I can no longer ping the gateway (i.e. the host) from within the guest. dns resolution fails also. I’m pretty stumped at this point. If i revert my changes, restart vmware services, reboot host and restart networking things are back to normal (i.e. ip from vmware dhcpd, can see gateway and can ping google). I’ve tried this dance a number of times and I’m seeing the same behaviour every time…

my nat.conf :http://pastebin.com/UDaLQDYR
my dhcpd.conf: http://pastebin.com/58KQb2hS

What I’ve just noticed is that by default my dhcpd.conf doesn’t have the vmnet8 entry???

Do you have clue as to why I’m seeing this behaviour or how I can go about debugging this?

Very sorry to bother you like this but I’m desperate at this point (tried google, irc, vmware support forums)..

Thanks for reading,

Saimon