Can't ping a local VM from the host
My work laptop is is a member of a domain (the OS is Windows 8). Created a new VM, locally on this laptop (using built-in Hyper-V). DHCP is provided by the domain and all IP addresses are assigned by the DHCP, both to the host and to the VM. The VM is not a member of the domain, just a member of the WORKGROUP. Trying to ping a local VM from the host. Pinging by machine name does not work. Pinging by IP address works just fine. Both host OS and the VM are on the same sub-network.
The IP addresses change every time I reconnect the laptop to office network. I would like to avoid the pain of using different IP's all the time.
Is there anything I can do on my end to make names resolution work? Adding the VM to the domain is not an option.
Answer
The issue could be that the VM is connected to the network via NAT. You need to set the network adapter of the VM to a bridged connection so that the VM will get it's own IP within the actual network and not on the LAN on the host.