I have a modem
This is where things get a little interesting. Set your virtual computer to use NAT.
As you have a modem you only have 1 IP address, your WAN one, andyou can’t use DHCP to auto assign an address to Centos
as you don’t have a DHCP server. WAN IP addresses are limited and chances are your ISP has only assigned you one (and that
is probably dynamic so it changes all the time) so the only way you can run is by both Windows and Centos sharing the same IP
address.
So, when a connection comes in from a player how does VMWare know the connection is for the virtual computer and not
Windows? Simple answer, it doesn’t and the connection wil go to Windows. This obviously won’t work
With a NAT connection you must manually tell VMWare where connections on the Cabal ports go. You have probably seen
router owners talking about “port forwarding” before and now it’s your time to learn about it.
Bring up your Virtual Network Settings under the Host menu (Edit menu for Workstation users).
Here you can see I have 3 virtual networks. Bridged, as mentioned earlier, pretty much takes care of itself so you don’t really
have any settings there. Host-only is useless to us so you can ignore that one, Vmnet8 (NAT) is what we want here.
Notice the NAT network has an subnet (a network range) that looks suspiciously like a LAN range and that is because that is
exactly what it is, a fake LAN.
For now just start the virtual machine (you did install Centos first right?). Centos should start and it should automatically pick
up an IP address in the VMnet8 subnet (probably something like 192.168.186.128). The actual range will probably be different
to the screenshot. Use the “ifconfig” command in Centos to find out what the IP address is and then back to your virtual
network settings.