[SOLVED] How to connect to Linux Virtual Machine

dbdude · 05-20-2014, 09:54 AM

I am a database administrator. For testing purpose I have installed OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) on my laptop using VMWare player. The OEL is very much similar to RHEL. I want to connect to the OEL using putty from my laptop. I am not even able to ping this machine from the laptop at present. Setting up the OEL so that I can access using putt, is that some thing I can do on my own? If this is doable by me, will you please help me with setting it up?

Linux: Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 update 5. (This is same as Red Hat Linux).
VMware: VMWare player 6.0.2.
OS On Laptop: Windows 7
Network Adaptors on the Virtual Machine: the first is NAT and the second is Bridged.

Code:

[root@oel3 ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
[root@oel3 ~]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:2E:37:FF
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 KiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:21:01:C1
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (102.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@oel3 ~]# uname -a
Linux oel3 3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 7 17:01:44 PST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

suicidaleggroll · 05-20-2014, 10:00 AM

Neither of the interfaces on the VM is active, there is no IP. What address are you trying to ping?

Focus on getting a valid network address on the VM first, then you can think about trying to connect to it from the outside.

dbdude · 05-20-2014, 10:27 AM

I have brought up eth0 and eth1 by changing ONBOOT=yes in ifcfg-eth0/1 files. Now I am able to connect to VM from the putty of my laptop. I am also able to access internet from VM. Still eth1 is not able to obtain IP address. Please see below screen capture. I still have two questions.
1) I have eth0 as NAT and eth1 as Bridge network card. When I am able to do everything with eth0 do I need eth1?
2) I want to assign static address so that every time VM will get the same IP address. Is it possible, if yes how?

Code:

[root@oel3 ~]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
[root@oel3 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:50:56:2E:37:FF
TYPE=Ethernet
UUID=bdfa3781-95a8-4959-9ba5-e581f0ab870f
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

[root@oel3 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:50:56:21:01:C1
TYPE=Ethernet
UUID=cec5d9e3-e5f2-4456-a1b2-da624cc6eefb
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

[root@oel3 network-scripts]# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0:                              [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface eth1:                              [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:                          [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... done.

                                                           [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth1:
Determining IP information for eth1... failed.
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@oel3 network-scripts]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:2E:37:FF
          inet addr:192.168.160.133  Bcast:192.168.160.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe2e:37ff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1035 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:285 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:96824 (94.5 KiB)  TX bytes:38211 (37.3 KiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:21:01:C1
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe21:1c1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:741 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:68172 (66.5 KiB)  TX bytes:8244 (8.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@oel3 network-scripts]# ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (173.194.115.19) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from dfw06s39-in-f19.1e100.net (173.194.115.19): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=52.3 ms
64 bytes from dfw06s39-in-f19.1e100.net (173.194.115.19): icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=53.7 ms
64 bytes from dfw06s39-in-f19.1e100.net (173.194.115.19): icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=113 ms
^C
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---

suicidaleggroll · 05-20-2014, 10:59 AM

My best guess is your network doesn't allow anonymous dhcp clients. Either the dhcp server has been turned off or it's using MAC filtering to reject unknown MAC addresses.

As for a static IP, there are many guides online for setting a static IP with networkmanager. Here's one:
http://superuser.com/questions/64548...networkmanager

dbdude · 05-20-2014, 11:05 AM

Suicidaleggroll, thank you very much for your help.