VMWare Fusion + AsteriskNow, can ping from host OS(X), but not browse it via www

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#19809 2-Mar-2008 13:34

Latest versions of OSX, VMWare and AsteriskNow.

Install went fine, bridged networking allows the VM access to the 'net, and it gets DHCP from my router.

I can ping the VM from anywhere on the network (host OS and other workgroup PCs)

I cannot browse to the AsteriskNow www interface with any browser anywhere :-(

Any clues?

Shared NAT yields no help to me either.

Im still new to OSX, and this is driving me nuts.

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#114519 4-Mar-2008 08:53

does the web interface work from the asterisk now virtual instance? try installing lynx if you only have access to the cli and see if it's accessable.. if not.. check that apache is up and running on the machine and is bound to the correct address.. i suppose the other thing to check is the apache logs on the asterisk now instance.. are you getting hits in the /var/log/apache/access.log from your osx box? if that's not showing anything up.. try ngrep (not sure if this will work on a VM?) ngrep -d eth0 eth0 being the inteface on the VM box that you are using.. see if you get output from that.. this will tell you if the requests are even getting to the VM instance.. if none of that works i'd start looking at the built in firewall in OSX.. maybe you need to allow it?

i've not played with this myself but i'd look at that and see what gives :)

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#114544 4-Mar-2008 12:54

Havent followed any of those steps yet, but I find that Parallels works fine, and I can access the web gui no issue.

Parallels lets me specify the Airport card to bridge to (or the ethernet i/face), whereas VMWare just says "Bridged networking" and doesn't mention the interfaces individually.

I have Googled extensively and no luck finding what I thought might be a common problem.

Its basically an untouched out-of-the-box Macbook, fully patched and updated, with default apps (plus irc/ftp and a couple of others), but nothing wierd has been done to it.

I have just ordered a brand new 2.4GHz Macbook (seeing as new ones were announced 4 days after I bought the first one!

), so will put this issue on the backburner till I can test on the new one.

I like VMWare better than Parallels, and would like my VMs to be portable across multiple systems (IntelMac, XP, and Vista hosts).

Both platforms are only $80 USD though, so it wouldn't kill me to own both, but that just seems wasteful.