Setting-up NAT in VMware Workstation

In this tutorial, we are going to setup NAT configuration in VMware Workstation. The Workstation version being used is:

On VMware Workstation, click Edit and then Virtual Network Editor…

On the Virtual Network Editor window, click Add Network:

On the pop-up window, select VMnet2 and click Ok:

The new Virtual Network would initialize with random settings:

The random settings adopted are as follows:

Now, change the Subnet IP and Subnet mask as follows and click NAT Settings:

Configure the NAT Settings as follows and click OK:

Afterwards, click DHCP Settings:

Set the DHCP Settings as follows:

DHCP Service would initialize, once done click Apply:

We are all done to use our NAT configuration in VMs now.

Right click one of the VM where you want to configure NAT and click Settings:

Configure the Network Adapter settings as follows and click OK:

Since, I like giving static IP addresses (the DHCP service would work just fine) to my VM machines:

The given settings would connect to Internet via the NAT configuration:

While, VMnet2 is set, we would see this network adapter in Network Connections as follows:

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