Hi Everybody,

Need to add vmnet2 in Ubuntu host with Vmware8 workstation .I found a solution for vmware 5.5 workstation (found in vmware site)which is not working in Vmware8.Any help is highly apreciable.

Thanks and Regards

Which solution? Post the URI?


Isn't working how? What did you try? How did you test it? What was the error?


AFAIK subnets are configured in /etc/vmware, each subnet has a separate /etc/vmware/vmnet{n} directory ({n} being an integer). If DHCP is used there will be a
/etc/vmware/vmnet{n}/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf file and if NAT is used there will be a /etc/vmware/vmnet{n}/nat/nat.conf file. With some common sense you could basically copy one of the other /etc/vmware/vmnet{n} directories as long as you change and ensure all network ranges and addresses settings are different from the original.

Hi unSpawn ,

Thanks for reply , I have added the vmnet2 using vmware >> networkeditor .
After adding , It is not displaying in console ,when I gave ifconfig . It is showing vmnet1 and vmnet8 (which is default ) .What I have to do to diplay in vmnet2 in ubuntu host .

Thanks and regards

Kind of depends. If Vmware workstation makes the subnet available (reloading the DHCPCd) without rebooting its services then reconfiguring the guest for the subnet inside VMware and rebooting the guest should work if it uses DHCP. If it doesn't then restart VMware, configure the the guest for the subnet inside VMware and boot it.