I am trying to connect to the internet by running the VM image of ubuntu though VM player on my windows machine. But I am not able to connect to the internet in ubuntu while the internet is perfectly working on the host OS.

Hi

You should at least tell us what virtualization platform are you using on your Winblowse box. If it's VirtualBox then check on your VM networking configs "put a mark on enable network Adapter" and chose "Attached to NAT". See if that works.

I m using VMare platform. I hv played with network adaptor configuration. I hv checked with NAT as well with bridged connection. But still it does n't work.

See what sudo ifconfig command returns.

See what the command nslookup or dig returns for www.linuxquestions.org

I really need to learn the ip command.

Following are the results of running those commands :

ankit@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for ankit:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:3b:75:fe
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe3b:75fe/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:208 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:22722 (22.7 KB) TX bytes:2094 (2.0 KB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:3b:75:08
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe3b:7508/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21582 (21.5 KB) TX bytes:2778 (2.7 KB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2080

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:976 (976.0 B) TX bytes:976 (976.0 B)




ankit@ubuntu:~$ nslookup www.linuxquestions.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached



ankit@ubuntu:~$ dig www.linuxquestions.org

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> www.linuxquestions.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached