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Narcisa Flierl

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Aug 3, 2024, 12:23:34 PM8/3/24

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git clone GitHub - mkubecek/vmware-host-modules: Patches needed to build VMware (Player and Workstation) host modules against recent kernels
cd vmware-host-modules
git checkout workstation-16.2.3
sudo make ; sudo make install

Hi Everyone,
I am installing elasticsearch on a VM (vmware workstation - NIC: bridged) Host machine (Windows Server) I am getting an error after trying to curl to the IP address of the machine running elasticsearch. I was hoping to get some direction.

After installing using the directions on
I tested using curl. locally on the machine and noticed that I was able to get a response just fine. I switched over to another host on the same subnet and I was able to ping but curl 172.16.128.208:9200fails

I have tried several modifications to the elasticsearch.yml file and have had no luck so far.
I have the logs and current .yml config in a pastebin if anyone would like to check it out. (forgive me for the logs... I have been here for a couple of hours, researching and modifying settings)

I recently did a fresh install to 15.04. I downloaded and installed vmware player, but when I go to launch it, I receive a message saying "vmware workstation several modules must be compiled and loaded into the kernel."

This is an upstream issue. VMware used to provide a separate free server package for Linux and Windows. But at the same time they started to develop dedicated cloud solutions, they had integrated the server package into VMware Workstation, hence discontinued a separate free server product. But after a while they completely discontinued and stopped shipping it, even inside a VMware Workstation, advising users to consider some of their cloud solutions.

While it's a completely marketing policy decision, because VMware LLC, like any private software company, tries to maximise profits from their proprietary technologies. And it will be hard for them to justify dedicated cloud project price tags while still shipping the free server product. But these server technologies aren't discontinued, they just continue to evolve in other projects.

Hello, thank you very much for providing this package. I was trying to follow this part of the guide _services but I got stuck in finding out the server binaries are no more there. May I ask what happened to them? I saw you had them included until workstation 15 and then eventually disappeared in 16 and now 17. Is there any plan on bringing them back? Thank you in advance.

@ihipop Yes, I have read the instruction. If you go to check the vmware-networks.service, you will find that the service wants vmware-networks-configuration.service, which will run the configuration service first.

@ihipop Thanks for your advice. My situation is that I loaded the kernel modules first and start the vmware-networks.service directly. Now the network is working for my virtual machines, but I cannot open the network editor.

I have a very strange problem with my Windows 10 laptop. I try to make a VPN chain. My host OS is a freshly and clean installed Windows 10 Professional without any third party antivirus or firewall installed. I set up an Ubuntu virtual machine in vmware workstation player with NAT network setting.

I can successfully connect to the first VPN server on my host OS and start up the virtual machine. When I go to ipleak.net (in the Ubuntu guest OS) i can see the ip address from the first VPN server, so far so good. But when I try to fire up the eddie client in the Ubuntu guest OS and make the second VPN connection it's always stuck on checking route and it fails to connect.

It sounds like you're connecting just fine but the method used to confirm the tunnel is working is failing. There used to be an option to disable checking the route but I think it may be re-named now. I don't use the app so I'm not sure. If that option is disabled then it'll stay connected and the tunnel is probably working.

I tried to disable the "check if the tunnel works" and "check AirVPN DNS" option. I can connect to the second VPN server now but I can't open any websites. It's stuck at "Performing a TLS handshake to website www.google.com" (bottom left corner of Firefox) please see the screenshots. Ping to 8.8.8.8 and www.google.com is working fine. Very strange... On one of the screenshots you can see the ip of the first VPN connection (PIA).

I now tried the doublehop thing on another host system of mine (mac mini with macOS Sierra installed). I also installed Virtualbox and Ubuntu as guest OS. Network settings set to NAT. It's exactly the same problem as on my windows 10 laptop. I can't connect to the second VPN server. It's also stuck on checking route. I saw that there is an error in the OpenVPN log file. Please check the log file here: