If you are a VMware user, you may be wondering how to allow another computer to access your virtual machine. This is especially important if the other computer is not connected to the internet and cannot run VMware software. To allow another computer to access a virtual machine, you first need to create a new account on VMware and then add the other computer as an administrator. Then, open the properties of the virtual machine and set its security level to “allow other computers.” Finally, add the other computer as a guest in your VMware account. If you have any questions or problems with this process, please do not hesitate to contact VMware customer service.
We’re going to assume that the virtual machine is using NAT, and has been assigned an IP address of 192.168.23.128.
First open the Manage Virtual Networks start menu item:
Click on the NAT tab, and then click on Edit. You will see the NAT Settings dialog:
Click the Port Forwarding button, and you will see this dialog:
Now we are finally on a screen we can actually use. We’re going to use port 8080 on the host machine. We enter the ip address for the ubuntu virtual machine, and port 80. These ports could be any ports.
We should be able to test this out by going to http://localhost:8080 on our host pc. We can give out the url to our host machine by replacing localhost with the host computer IP address.
