Ubuntu – How to connect to internet from Ubuntu which is installed in a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation

As discussed in Root Access chat:

1. You don't need to do port forwarding. Just use bridging to make your guest ask for an IP address on the router's own subnet, so the guest will have an IP like 192.168.2.178 (for example). It is recommended that you use bridging instead of trying to figure out how to convince VMware's NAT adapter to do port forwarding.

2. VMware Workstation 8 Manual page 144 (at the bottom) and the next couple of pages describe in detail how to set up bridging.

3. General idea is to use the Virtual Network Editor to change your connection type to bridged instead of NAT, and make sure that the adapter you edit is being mapped into the VM in the VM's settings pane. That's it -- if everything is set up properly on the host side, your guest will get an IP on the router.

based on a suggestion here

it turned out that during a NAT on vmnet8 on home ADSL broadband routers we need to give DNS IP manually so here is a screenshot of how my virtual network editor used to look previously

now based on suggestion I put up my ADSL router IP 192.168.1.1 as DNS IP as in below screenshot

nslookup still failed that screenshot after this reset etc can be seen here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZO2VioostBNYulgn6BT4aqf0C4lQ6yp0/view

after this setting of DNS when I did nslookup from virtual machine I got an error that reply not found or query could not be answered

however at the time of writing this answer I did nslookup in virtual machine as follows

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.476]
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C:\Users\Debian>nslookup www.vmware.com
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.136.2

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    e751.dscx.akamaiedge.net
Addresses:  2600:1417:2c:194::2ef
          104.114.87.171
Aliases:  www.vmware.com
          www.vmware.com.ds.edgekey.net

internet connectivity was there in virtual machine.

as an extra information I am also giving the Network Adapter setting of VMware Workstation now if you see the output of ipconfig on virtual machine it is as below

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Ethernet0:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : localdomain
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.136.133
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.136.2

now see the vmnet8 IP in below screenshot
vmnet8 ip range is in 192.168.136.x range and IP of my virtual machine which VMware DHCP gave is 192.168.136.133 so obviously virtual machine got IP from vmnet8. So if you are using VMware behind an ADSL router in broadband setup then putting IP of your ADSL router in DNS settings i.e. virtual network editor-->Vmnet8--->NAT--->DNS Settings is where you should put it. I mentioned all this so that if some else gets here in future this should help him.

Also I want to mention that during debugging of all this things had messed up so badly that before proceeding with steps in this answer I had restored defaults from VMware network adapter settings and after that I had applied all the changes as mentioned in screenshot.

Here is a screenshot of ADSL router DNS settings page which is installed and I get internet access from this one, the model is Dlink Product Page: DSL-2750U screenshot of router accessible at 192.168.1.1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1818cN4eYpT0rr9wu7R0T-pthRxmV1MlV/view