Summary of problems encountered by VMware Workstation

After you install the virtual machine, the following three problems are summarized:

One, the problem one: virtual machine and host each other ping impassability

Installed the virtual machine, Ethernet selected is the default bridge, can be installed after the host can not ping, and can not ping through the gateway 192.168.1.1, display "Destination host unreachable"

In VMware Workstation, click menu to edit-> virtual network settings (S) to open Virtual Network editor, and on the Summary tab, you can see:
Virtual Network Summary
VMnet0 (bridging) bridge to ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI Adapter-Packet Scheduler Miniport
VMnet1 (host only) a private network connected to the host
VMnet8 (NAT) is used to share the host's IP address

Because we selected "bridging" in Ethernet "network connection", we switched to "host virtual network mapping" and saw that the value after "VMnet0" was: Bridge to an automatically selected adapter, and we modified it to:
ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI Adapter-Packet Scheduler Mini port
Then "Apply"-> "OK"

Results: The host can ping the virtual machine, while the virtual machine ping does not pass the host, but the host and virtual machine can ping the other computers on the local area network.
Later, by disabling the VMware network Adapter VMnet1, VMware Network Adapter VMNET8 in the Host network connection, the virtual machine can ping the host.
This time, finally seriously learned the virtual machine in these three kinds of connections are different:

1.Bridge mode (bridging mode)
This mode is a new virtual machine when the default selection, is the virtual host of the virtual network card bridge to a host host physical network card above, is actually the host of the physical network card set to promiscuous mode, so that the ability to listen to multiple IP. In this mode, the virtual host of the virtual network card directly connected to the host's physical network card, can be understood as a virtual machine and host hosts in a peer status, in the network relationship is equal, no one who is the Lord who, who before the points.

2.NAT mode
In this mode, a virtual NIC VMnet8 (by default) appears in the network connection of the host host. If you do 2000/2003 of the NAT server experiment will understand: Host hosts on the VMNET8 virtual network card is equivalent to connect to the intranet network card, host host physical network card is equivalent to connect to the extranet network card, and the virtual machine itself is equivalent to running the computer online, Virtual Ethernet Switch (VMNET8) is independent in virtual machine card. In this way, VMware's own DHCP service is loaded by default to virtual Ethernet Switch (VMNET8) so that the virtual machine can use the DHCP service.

3.host-only mode
This pattern is a closed way, suitable for various network experiments in an independent environment. In this way a virtual network card VMnet1 (by default) appears in Network Connections for host hosts. and NAT The only difference is: In this way, there is no address translation service. So in this case, the virtual machine can only access the host, which is also the meaning of Host-only's name.

second, the question two: the virtual machine cannot use the keypad the numeric key?

First in the host to turn off the use of the keypad (press the NumLock key, so that the LED is not lit), and then press the NumLock key in the virtual machine, so that the indicator light can be lightened.

third, host and virtual machine shared files

Method 1: Install the VMware tools,vmware workstation-> menu "virtual machine"-> "Install VMware Tool (I)" to the virtual machine, then install VMware Tools automatically, You can drag files directly to the virtual machine in the host.

Method 2: Host and virtual machine share. You can also copy files through ipc$ connection by accessing another computer directly.