Why doesn’t host-only network allow me to ping my guest? What’ve I not done?

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Is your guest OS set to respond to pings? firewall?

Ah.. didn’t disable the firewall on the guest.. tried setenforce 0 and it still doesn’t work though. It’s CentOS 7

Right. Guests can ping *each other*, just not the host.

ESXi ? I didn’t think you could do this without having another VM running some basic firewall with an adapter on both your isolated network and one bound to a physical adapter.

Right. Guests can ping *each other*, just not the host.

Why would you want to, out of interest?

Host virtual network adapter for the host-only network (vmnet1) was buggered up somehow – it was showing APIPA ip address.

In the VMWare virtual network editor, ‘restore defaults’ actually deletes and re-creates everything. Working now. FFS.

Why would you want to, out of interest?

I install all my dev server software on Linux VMs to keep everything neat and tidy. Current customer is using Windows client software. I should probably install a Windows VM for this but I just used my guest for expidency. May regret that later mind.