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Connect to vmware guest when there is no internet connection

I had set up virtual machine with debian 7 guest on my windows 7 laptop and was using it for developing a website. Now I do not have internet connection on my laptop. Is it possible in a same way connect to the guest as usual by ftp and remote mysql?

When I had internet doing ifconfig in guest, showed me the ip of it smth like 192.168.0.107, which I used to connect to guest from host. Now the some command does not show any ip, instead it shows UP BROADCAST MULTICAST

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thanks

Solution

  • Host side

    Add another network in [Virtual Network Editor], a custom VMnet4, having static NETWORK_ADDRESS 192.168.78.0/24

    Check option to [Connect host virtual network adapter to this network] to ON

    Check option to [Use local DHCP ... ] to be OFF ( prefer static-IP addresses here )

    Guest side

    Add another VirtualNIC, attached to VMnet4, with static IP_ADDRESS 192.168.78.100

    Once done,

    your Dev/Test-LAB will work inside this sand-box-ed environment, be the laptop connected to an external world or not.