Telnet to a Ubuntu VM from local network machines

[BJZeak]

XP-SP3 running VMPlayer 4.0.4 with a Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS VM

Using TinyTerm residing on the "same" machine, I can telnet to this VM with no issues. What I can't seem to determine is how to telnet to this VM from another machine on the local network.

UBUNTU has created a domain of 192.168.149.xxx ... this doesn't match my local network address of 224.197.79.xxx ... I am wondering if this may be the reason I cannot get to the UBUNTU VM from an external machine.

I need to replace some old hardware running UNIX based software so would like to use a VM but all of the peer machines need access to this VM via Telnet ... the only thing stopping me is being able to connect to the VM from another machine on the local network.

 

[Provogeek]

Reconfigure the networking from NAT to bridged.

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[BJZeak]

When I set to bridged the XP SP3 host OS crashes ... no blue screen just goes immediately to black screen and BIOS cold boot startup screens.

 

[Provogeek]

Then you need to fix your host OS. Issue maybe related to the NIC driver.

If that is not doable, look into setting up a port forward in the Virtual Network Editor for the NAT vmnet you are using for the guest virtual machine.

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Brent Schmidt Senior Network Engineer
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