I have VMWare Server running on Windows 7 64-bit host. I built a CentOS55 vm and installed zimbra mailserver. All went fine. I have my vnic set to Bridged (vmnet0). I have given my zimbra server a static IP address of 192.168.1.55. The server can reach the net/send mail out. The server cannot get mail in. Port 25 is blocked. Initially I blamed by ISP, Comcast for blocking port 25, and after a big mess have my MX pointing to dnsexit which then is configured to forward the mail to my zimbra server on port 26. On the zimbra vm, telneting to localhost port 26 works. On my local lan from my win7 and other non-virtual machines, telneting to port 26 works. From the outside world, telneting to port 26 fails, just as it did when I had it sitting on port 25. I have a linksys WRT54G wireless router. It has port forwarding set up to forward port 26 to 192.168.1.55 (my zimbra vm). The linksys router can ping the host 192.168.1.55. (It doesnt have the tools to test addl ports via a telnet connection.) For testing purposes, Ive disabled all firewalls on my Win7 host.
I have other port forwarding set up in the router to the physical win7 box, and those ports redirect fine. Redirecting to the VM just doesnt work.
I decided to power off the vm, and configure the nic as NAT instead of bridged. Once I did that and rebooted the vm, the vm wouldnt come up. It hung.
I really dont want to tear apart the whole vm and rebuild. Seems silly. Why doesnt port forwarding from the router to the bridged vmnet0 work?