[geeks] Some VMWare tech support...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
>Date: 2008/04/19 Sat PM 09:19:00 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [geeks] Some VMWare tech support...

>Hey gang, I'm really confused. My google-fu is coming up short.
>
>I have a Windows XP laptop running VMWare Server. I have two VMs that
>I've put on their own network ( vmnet2 )
>
>One machine (guest) is 172.17.69.100. (OS X)
>
>One machine (guest) is 172.17.69.200. (RHEL 4)
>
>I can ftp and ssh back and forth between the guests (machines) all day.
>
>I have a client app running on .100 connecting to port 8443 on .200.
>When I go to connect I get connection refused. netstat on .200 shows
>*:8443 and listens when I do a "telnet IP 8443" and "telnet localhost
>8443" on the local system.
>
>I'm thinking vmware has some kind of firewall in place. I can't find
>how to disable it or where it is controlled. I saw some posts that
>reference a server.xml for a firewall that comes with vmware, but
>that's on Linux host systems.
>
>Can anyone throw me a bone here?

My money is on "bridged networking" for the two VMs - I suspect your VMs are sending all their packets  out over the hardware ethernet port, causing the host machine (Windows XP) firewall to interfere...

There are other options that would allow you to have the two machines communicate directly, without "touching" the actual port on the host machine (private?).

Lionel