connecting multiple vm on different machines - vmware

I have two laptops running windows 10, and vmware workstation 14 installed on both. My objective is to be able to connect from vm A hosted on laptop A to Vm B hosted on Laptop B. note that both laptops are connected to the same router. please advice about the configartion that should be applied.

first of all you should connect both laptop together with cable or WiFi(Hot Spot) after that you must use bridge mode on your VMnet in your VMWare Workstation on your laptop and use correct physical interface ( Ethernet or Wireless)
use same subnet for VMs and connect them.
Note 1: Turn off your Firewall and Third-party firewall software on both Laptop and VMs
Note 2: If and do not make mistake you can change Bridge interface in VMWare Workstation on Edit > Virtual Network Settings

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Host 10.20.20.1
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I want to connect an external Wi-Fi adapter from my local PC to a Windows Server in AWS.
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This is not a capability provided by AWS.
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I've installed pfsense 2.3 x64 in virtualbox with 2 adapters; One is bridged to my wifi adapter (adsl modem) (WAN) and the other one set as'Internal network' ('intnet') (Lan);
The problem is that although pfsense can automatically detect dhcp over first adapter and get an IP but my system (the host) can not ping the pfsense server (pfsense can ping both adsl modem gateway and the host).
Note1: Disabling the antivirus and firewall (kaspersky internet security 2016) has no effect.
Note2: I know that this setup works because I use the exact same network configurations for a Kerio Control server (v9.0.2, installed in virtualbox)
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I figured this out without having to go through the WAN interface, answer is on the pfsense forum
Configure host-only network "vboxnet1" (or any of the other host-only networks if you're already using vboxnet1 for other VMs) with the following:
192.168.1.77 (or whatever IP you want your host to appear as on the network)
255.255.255.0
DHCP Disabled
The make sure that the LAN adapter on your pfSense VM is a "Host-only Adapter" and that it's using "vboxnet1" (or whatever network you configured above)
Reboot/re-install and http://192.168.1.1 should work now

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I have a windows server 2003 as the guest in VMware player and windows 7 enterprise as the host. I'm trying to connect to the inernet from my guest and i can't. In my VMware player virtual machine settings my network addapter is set to NAT but i can't get it to work.My host is in the work LAn and connected to the internet through it. Could this have something to do with it not working properly? Do I have to perform some special setup?
The problem may be caused by:
You're NATting to the wrong host's network interface in the VM's option.
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