Hi Folks
First of all, i want to thank you all for the great help you have been providing, and
really appreciate the valuable time and inputs from you.
I seek your help in an issue i am facing:
I have a setup as follows:
On bare metal, i have installed ubuntu linux.
On this ubuntu linux i am running virtual box.
From virtual box i have installed ESXi 5.1 as VM.
On this ESXi 5.1 VM, i have installed ubuntu linux as a VM.
So here the stack:
linux-guest-VM (vnic ip: 10.0.0.190)
ESXi-5.1-hypervisor-VM (vmknic mgmt ip: 10.0.0.101)
Virtual-box on Ubuntu-host-OS. (eth0 ip: 10.0.0.100)
I am able to ping from ESXi to eth0 and to any network outside.
But am not able to do the following:
1> Cannot ping from linux-guest-VM to ESXi hypervisor VM.
ping 10.0.0.101 fails.
2> Cannot ping from linux-guest-VM to Ubuntu-host-OS eth0.
ping 10.0.0.100 fails.
3> Cannot ping from ESXi hypervisor VM to linux-guest-VM.
ping 10.0.0.190 fails.
Basically, the networking from linux-guest-VM to anywhere
down to ESXi and further is broken.
From anywhere outside, i can ping 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.101,
but i cannot ping the linux-guest-VM, meaning
ping 10.0.0.190 from anywhere outside fails.
I have connected the vnic from linux-guest-VM on a DVS
and from the DVS, i have vmnic.
Can someone please help me with the way to setup networking
from linux-guest-VM to ESXi hypervisor, where the ESXi hypervisor
itself is a VM.
I think i am missing some basic configuration, else, i did expect
the ping from ESXi hypervisor to linux-guest-vm to work at least.
Can someone please help with this?
Thanks in advance and really greatful for your valuable time and input.