I've the following configuration:

A. Physical machine: Windows 7 64bit with VMWare workstation 8 with a physical network adapter with this ip configuration:

IP 192.168.1.101

Subetnet Mask 255.255.255.0

Gateway 192.168.1.254

and a virtual network adapter (VMNet8) with this configuration:

IP 10.10.0.18

Subnet IP: 10.10.0.0

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

B. Virtual machine: Ubuntu 12.04 server (running in VMWare workstation 8) with the following ip configuration (in /etc/network/interfaces):

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static

address 10.10.0.1

netmask 255.255.255.0

gateway 10.10.0.18

with this routing table (route -n):

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface

0.0.0.0         10.10.0.18      0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eth0

10.10.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0

192.168.1.0     10.10.0.18      255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0 eth0

The problem is that the virtual machine is not accessing the internet nor pinging the physical machine, in particular:

(from the physical machine)

• internet is accessible


• ping 10.10.0.18 is working


• ping 10.10.0.1 is working

(from the virtual machine)

• internet is not accessible


• ping 10.10.0.1 is working (it's itself)


• ping 10.10.0.18 is working


• ping 192.168.1.101 is NOT working


• ping 192.168.1.254 is NOT working

I've tried the answer here: Configuring Ubuntu vmware guest NAT but it's not working.

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.