Virtual Machine problem

I was trying to access a cellphone rooting website from Windows 10.

Normally not a problem but this time I got 'Cannot access' messages and the
people I was in contact with claimed Windows believed my Internet link was
unstable. It definitely isn't.

The thing is that it is a virtual win-10 hosted on Linux via VMware.
No proxy server and no firewall beyond the router.

Is there any inherent reason that this configuration shouldn't work?


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Pinnerite wrote:
I was trying to access a cellphone rooting website from Windows 10.

Normally not a problem but this time I got 'Cannot access' messages and the
people I was in contact with claimed Windows believed my Internet link was
unstable. It definitely isn't.

The thing is that it is a virtual win-10 hosted on Linux via VMware.
No proxy server and no firewall beyond the router.

Is there any inherent reason that this configuration shouldn't work?

I have no trouble here, web surfing from Windows 10 as a Guest
under VirtualBox.

But of course, all it takes is one patch, of either VMWare, or
the Windows 10 Guest, to break something. And it might not
necessarily be all that easy to debug, as it might use
TAP or TUN on the Host side. Can you have multiple of those
running at the same time ? Think carefully about your network
setup, and how much spaghetti is loaded that way (TAP/TUN VPN
versus virtual machines...) Maybe Wireshark can pick that up,
and you'll have to look at the list of network connections
in the main window, to see.

Paul

Paul wrote:

Pinnerite wrote:
I was trying to access a cellphone rooting website from Windows 10.

Normally not a problem but this time I got 'Cannot access' messages and
the
people I was in contact with claimed Windows believed my Internet link
was unstable. It definitely isn't.

The thing is that it is a virtual win-10 hosted on Linux via VMware.
No proxy server and no firewall beyond the router.

Is there any inherent reason that this configuration shouldn't work?

I have no trouble here, web surfing from Windows 10 as a Guest
under VirtualBox.

But of course, all it takes is one patch, of either VMWare, or
the Windows 10 Guest, to break something. And it might not
necessarily be all that easy to debug, as it might use
TAP or TUN on the Host side. Can you have multiple of those
running at the same time ? Think carefully about your network
setup, and how much spaghetti is loaded that way (TAP/TUN VPN
versus virtual machines...) Maybe Wireshark can pick that up,
and you'll have to look at the list of network connections
in the main window, to see.

Paul


If all that was true, why are all other Internet activities from Win-10,
including the unpredictable Windows updates working smoothly?

Alan
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Mageia 5.1 for x86_64, Kernel:4.4.114-desktop-1.mga5
KDE version 4.14.5 on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition.