Well, I finally got around to upgrading from VMWare 4.5 to VMWare 5. It is a great pacakge with lots of fabulous new features! After upgrading my virtual machine images and VMWare Tools for the new version I thought I would check for Windows updates. It has been a long time since I used VMWare at home, so I figured there would be a lot of updates.
For some odd reason it couldn't get online. I had an ipaddress. All the network settings checked out. I could ping my gateway, I could ping my host machine, I could even ping remote web sites. I even tried to telnet on port 80 to a remote website and that couldn't connect (thus eliminating Internet Explorer as the cause). I setup a quick tiny web server on my local machine and I couldn't hit it either. I was able to open a windows share on the host machine though. This was starting to get weird. I had gone over every setting multiple times. Finally I decided to try disabling my firewall, and that was what it took.
I've never had trouble with my firewally and VMWare in the past and I have been using VMWare since version 3 (or round about,) and I am fairly sure I have used it with Kerio Personal Firewall too. I started going through all the firewall settings to figure out what the problem was. It never popped up saying it intercepted a connection attempt. I checked and VMware.exe had full online privilages.
I finally found an option to allow my computer to act as a gateway. It was unenabled. That would seem like a logical cause. When I attempted to enable it Kerio informed me that that feature was not available in the free version I was using, and I needed to upgrade to the full version.
What a bummer. I've used Kerio Free for a long time (since back when it was still part of Tiny). I know I have used Kerio with VMWare before, and I cannot imagine the VMWare 5 version changed the way networking works that significantly so I can only assume that Kerio has tightened up its restrictions. Being tight is good, but inflexible is bad.
I really like having an application firewall that allows me to block certain applications from connecting out. Kerio has been my favorite, even though a bug in a beta version (I know, it was a beta) caused Delphi to crash when debugging (something to do with code injection). Looks like I will be using the less functional Windows Firewall for a while, at least until I find a new firewall I like.
So for those of you keeping score at home, the final score is:
- Delphi: 1
- VMWare: 1
- Kerio: -2 (Since it caused what appeared to be issues with the other two).
Tags: [VMWare] [FireWall] [Kerio] [Internet] [Networking] [Utilities] [Troubleshooting] [Software]
8 comments:
I've had similar problems and I have one working solution. In VMWare's virtual machine settings change Network connection on Ethernet adapter to NAT mode. This should help with free version of Kerio Personal Firewall which does not support Gateway mode.
Problem is described on Kerio pages http://www.kerio.com/manual/kpf/en/ch07s05.html
KCi
I tried the NAT mode and it didn't work either. Curious.
Thanks to the link on Kerio's site.
Thanks, kci. It worked for me.
I tried it as well (with VMWare player), and it worked (but I had to restart the virtual machine in order for it to kick in
I tried the NAT mode and it didn't work either. Curious.
Make sure the network settings(ip address/subnet) in the vm are in sync with the settings of the adapter that vmware adds on the host system.
I stumbled upon this by accidentally enabling dhcp in the guest OS :D
Hey worked for me too. thanks! This has been a hassle.
Thank you very much. I was bit frustrated since of this problem. Now it got resolved and I am able to work online at my end. Thanks once again for providing a suggestion.
Regards,
Prasad.
kci
YOU ROCK.
I was not able to ping my router or the host machine. After turning NAT, AND SHUTTING VM OFF/RESTARTING VMWARE_PLAYER, kerio started asking me with the lovely popups! (only popups i saw before were for registering ethernet adps)
this is sunbelt kerio 4.5.19
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