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Updated on 2025-04-09

VMware virtual machine ping failure troubleshooting and analysis

Because I recently encountered a strange ping that does not work with a virtual machine. During this process, I checked many settings, so I wrote an article to record it. If there is a VMware virtual machine that does not work with a virtual machine, you can try the troubleshooting method in this article.

The following is an example of the VMware virtual machine.

1. Check the network

First, ping the virtual machine through the host and ping the virtual machine to check whether the network is connected.

# ping IP
ping 192.168.231.163 

There may be two types of situations:

(1) One side can ping the other side;

(2) Both sides ping each other and do not communicate;

  • If it is the first case, focus on checkingProxy/VPNIs it closed?
  • If this is the second case, check the virtual machine network.

2. Restart the virtual machine network

(1) If you have not manually configured the virtual machine IP, there is generally no problem. You can check whether the virtual machine is on the same network segment as the host.

(2) Restart the virtual machine network configuration, ubuntu can perform the following operations.

 systemctl restart 

(3) If you want to ssh to connect to the virtual machine, check whether to install the ssh-related package.

node@node:~$ dpkg -l | grep openssh
ii  openssh-client                             1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.11                  amd64        secure shell (SSH) client, for secure access to remote machines
ii  openssh-server                             1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.11                  amd64        secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines
ii  openssh-sftp-server                        1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.11                  amd64        secure shell (SSH) sftp server module, for SFTP access from remote machines

(4) The last move is to restart the virtual machine or restart the host.

Summarize

The above is personal experience. I hope you can give you a reference and I hope you can support me more.