![]() ![]() You can think of the VMs with bridged connections all being connected to a big virtual bridge, along with your host computer. With bridged networking, the virtual machine is on the same network as the host (your PC or laptop that’s running Workstation). To do this, I had to know the IP address of the VM on the NAT network, as assigned via Workstation’s DHCP server.įigure 4 Understanding VMware Workstation Bridged Networksįor my VMs running in Workstation, instead of the default of NAT, I typically prefer to configure them with Bridged networking. As you see below, I wanted to be able to connect to a VM in the NAT network, inbound, using RDP (remote desktop) so I opened a port on the Workstation host under 3390 (incremented one from 3389, or RDP) to RDP on the VM inside the NAT network (port 3389). It is possible to have inbound NAT connections to a VM but you must configure those manually in Workstation’s Virtual Network Editor under NAT Settings. The main limitation that you need to be aware of is that you can only one network set to NAT (this is also the same for the bridged network type). The IP address, assigned to your VM that is on the NAT network, is translated to the IP address assigned to Workstation’s physical network adaptor when the NAT’ted VM needs to communicate with the public network (which could be the local company network if you are cabled to the LAN or the Internet, let’s say if you are at a coffee shop). The default IP address range for the NAT network is 192.168.75.0 with a 255.255.255.0 (class C) subnet mask (which is completely configurable by you). With NAT, or network address translation, the virtual machine will receive an IP address from VMware Workstation’s built in DHCP server. Understanding VMware Workstation NAT Networks For example, you can change the bridged network to be a different VMnet or just delete it completely (if you do, remember that the Restore Default option is your friend because it can quickly put everything back to how it was when Workstation was installed). Keep in mind that these are all “by default” because all of this is configurable by you.
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