Solaris

What's the network address and subnet mask of the Host-Only network? Have you assigned an IP to the Solaris VM in the same subnet? If not, you will not be able to ping the VM from the host machine!!

As I told earlier, this is not an issue with the Solaris VM. You just need to check network settings in the VMWare Virtual Network Editor. If you are not sure how to edit those settings, enable dhcp in the Solaris VM and check the IP address assigned to it. Later you can assign static IP in that particular subnet.

IPs are meaning less without the subnet mask. Assumming that you are using the default 24 bit Class C subnet mask, your Solaris VM is clearly on a different subnet than the host machine. They both have to be on 192.168.1.0/24 subnet according to what you have posted.

It sounds really good. Actually i am unable to show the output of ifconfig -a due to some copy error. I exectuted
#ifconfig e1000g0 plumb
# ifconfig e1000g0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
to assign the ip. So i dont think i have did any mistake on assigning the IP on Solaris VM

In windows 7 ipconfig command shows the ip as 192.168.1.2 and netmask as 255.255.255.0 in additon to that it shows two vmware ips one is vmnet1 and vmnet8 .I dont have any idea about these vmnet

Really thanks for your suggestion and help to resolve the issue.I will try to edit the vmware network settings again to solve the issue.

There you go.

You need to check the IP Address assigned to Windows 7 under vmnet1 network. This is the default host-only network for your VMs. Your Solaris VM's IP should be on the same subnet as the IP address of VMnet1 adaptor on Windows 7.

Vmnet1 and Vmnet8 are the virtual adaptors that get created while installing VMWare. So even if your host's physical adaptor is on the same subnet as the Solaris VM, there's virtually no connection between them.

Can you post "ipconfig" for vmnet1 on your Windows 7 host? If you can configure the Solaris VM to be on the same subnet as vmnet1, your problem is solved.

vmnet 1

ipv6 Address - 192.168.80.1
subnet mask - 255.255.255.0
Default gateway -

Vmnet 8

Ipv4 Adress : 192.168.31.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway :

What ip i should set for Solaris VM ?

Thanks in advance

---------- Post updated at 01:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:16 PM ----------

omg !

Thank you so much admin_xor

I changed the ip as 192.168.80.5 in solaris with Host only in vmware and problem is solved .

You are GENIUS

Always happy to help!!