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Damn, got it to work. I can't believe I forgot to check the box on ESX that says &quot;Connected&quot; in network adapters. I found that out as you mentioned to check the replicate physical network so I owe it to you.<br />
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Spent an hour on that until it came to me.<br />
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Thanks
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Damn, got it to work. I can't believe I forgot to check the box on ESX that says "Connected" in network adapters. I found that out as you mentioned to check the replicate physical network so I owe it to you.

Spent an hour on that until it came to me.

Thanks

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I have an ESX Server within my VM Workstation. And I have another VM in workstation running XP.<br />
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For some reason, I cannot get the XP machine to ping the ESX Server. They are both on the same network 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 on a class B<br />
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The ESX Server says &quot;disconnected&quot; for VMnet0 because naturally I think ESX ties to your physical adapter. Even if I put the physical adapter with a static IP on the same network, it doesn't connect. The laptop is not connected to the network, it's simply a lab.<br />
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I'm sure this is a simple issue. Just getting XP to ping ESX within VM Workstation. I can easily do this with two XP VMs. <br />
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Thanks
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I have an ESX Server within my VM Workstation. And I have another VM in workstation running XP.

For some reason, I cannot get the XP machine to ping the ESX Server. They are both on the same network 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 on a class B

The ESX Server says "disconnected" for VMnet0 because naturally I think ESX ties to your physical adapter. Even if I put the physical adapter with a static IP on the same network, it doesn't connect. The laptop is not connected to the network, it's simply a lab.

I'm sure this is a simple issue. Just getting XP to ping ESX within VM Workstation. I can easily do this with two XP VMs. 

Thanks

VM ESX

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.