Comments on: Howto: Port forward to Your Virtual Machine

By: benrobb

benrobb — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:39:46 +0000

It’s been a long time since I played with VMWare server. I’m not sure what version it was on at the time I was using it, but it was the free version.

By: henington

henington — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:35:14 +0000

I’m having the same issue, however, i’m using the free VMware server 2.0 running on a Windows host. The guest OS is an image.

Internally, everything works fine. But with port 80 pointing to the VM image, it does not work. When i forward port 80 to a different system it works great.

I dont see a lot of the settings you discussed above, in Vmware Server 2.0. Has this functionality been removed from the free version?

By: @vikramsetia

@vikramsetia — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:21:19 +0000

This works for me. (port Forwarding) I have 2 IPs assigned to my server. My server port 80 is running a few applications so I do not want port 80 to port 80 forwarding. How can I assign the second IP to forward to virtual port 80?

By: mark

mark — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:11:14 +0000

I am hosting a webserver within a VMWare image running Ubuntu/Tomcat. I am using verizon fios with a static ip. I have set up the virtual server to listen for traffic on port 9000 (changed from port 80) to test. For some reason I cannot see the server from outside the firewall. I was on the phone for 4 hours with verizon today trying to troubleshoot the problem, and no love. Any ideas?

By: benrobb

benrobb — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:35:41 +0000

@Federico, yes, these instructions are for VMs with a host OS, and specifically for VMs running with VMWare. Unfortunately, I don’t have any experience with the setup you’re describing.

By: federico

federico — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:21:53 +0000

If I have understood you are talking about VMs with an host OS. I have the same problem (if I make a port forward in my router to the ip address of
my linux vm I can’t reach it) but I’m using an ESXi server. It doesn’t give the possibility to forward packets to another address…..

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:11:33 +0000

Thank you, this helped dearly!

By: rojan555

rojan555 — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:10:02 +0000

I cannot access my Linux which is inside my VM ware from outside my Host system. I possible do send in your comments to rojan555@gmail.com

By: benrobb

benrobb — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:13:38 +0000

That depends on how your VM is setup. If it’s using bridged Ethernet, then it should be grabbing it’s IP address from your router anyway. If this is the case, then you should be able to forward traffic directly from the router to the VM. Check your IP address on your virtual machine. If it’s in the same range as your host machine (probably 192.168.x.x) then you’re probably using bridged ethernet. If this is the case, then you should be able to forward from the router directly to the VM.

As I mentioned above, this didn’t work for me, so I used NAT instead of the bridged ethernet. If you’re going with this route, then you need to point those ports form your router to your host machine, then go into the VM settings as described and forward those ports again so that they can get to your virtual machine.

With all the Parallels/Fusion/Mac’s running Windows VMs, this is even more applicable now than it was a year ago when I wrote this.

By: Rando

Rando — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:22:33 +0000

Okay, so I’ve got a host on a lan, and a VM to be used as an e-mail server. Should the router point ports 110 and 25 to the host machine’s static IP address, vmnet8’s IP address, or what?