Determine which host(Physical machine) hosting virtual machine(Vmware) based mac address - linux

I've a mac address which belongs to VMware virtual machine in my network(about 4k devices).
The virtual machine is used by VMware workstation on some host in my network.
All i got is a mac address of the virtual machine.
Is there any way to find it(by DOS/bash or similiar) without installing PowerCLI on each device or using arp table details(not allways the virtual machines appears there)?
thanks!

I very much doubt that this is possible since identifying host information from a guest could be a security concern. However, what you could do if using ”Workstation PRO” is to call the rest api from within the guest - if that sort of traffic is allowed.

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Connection and/or config problems when running OVS (Open vSwitch) and ONOS (Open Network Operating System) in Azure

We are building a proof of concept piece that uses ONOS to update the flow tables on an OVS switch to either block or allow traffic connected to the OVS switch. We have got a piece working on a local machine using using virtual machines on virtual box. We're trying to see if we can get it working using virtual machines in Azure. Here's the setup:
I have three Linux virtual machines running in Azure.
One virtual machine has ONOS installed on it. Ley's call this ONOS-1.
The second virtual machine has OVS installed on it. Let's call this OVS-1.
And the third virtual machine is just a standard Linux virtual machine that is being used by a user. Let's call this HOST-1.
The OVS-1 has two network interface cards, one for management access and another used by OVS for bridging. In OVS there are multiple vPorts configured on the single NIC that is on the data network.
The idea is that ONOS-1 is connected to OVS-1, and the OVS-1 is connected to HOST-1via one of the OVS vPorts. ONOS-1 should be able to control OVS-1. Currently, ONOS-1 can see OVS-1, but any vPorts created on OVS-1 show as enabled=False in ONOS-1. What is the problem or what are we missing? Any help, guidance, or direction would be greatly appreciated.
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We've tried adding additional NIC for each OVS vPort. This did not work either.

Capturing packets on VMware machines

I have a windows PC installed VMware Workstation and Linux run on it. I want When windows communicate with Internet I can capture packets in Linux, how can I do that?
The vmware network is Bridge, and I set eth0 use command "ifconfig eth0 procmisc".
linux IP is 192.168.0.103, windows IP is 192.168.0.102
Run "tcpdump not host 192.168.0.103" with no result.
Thank you for you time and please help me
While I haven't used VMWare workstation before, I have used Oracle VirtualBox in a similar setup as you describe.
I suspect that the problem is that your network adaptor on the Linux VM is not actually accessing the physical network adaptor directly. You will be using one of the network mapping types described in http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006480 instead.
As such, you are not getting all the traffic that is going to your physical network adaptor. Instead you are getting the reduced set of traffic that VMWare is passing on to your guest.
The only way to get that is to do the snoop on your Windows host, using something like https://www.wireshark.org/

Virtual box based development for Embedded Linux

I am new to embedded linux development.I have inherited a particular way of Embedded linux development from the previous developer.
I was just wondering if there is a more industry standard way of working.
This is how he was working,
There is an ARM embedded linux board which is not on the corporate network and has a fixed IP address of 192.168.0.52.I have a virtualbox based linux host which is connected directly to this linux board via an Ethernet cable.This host has an NFS shared with the target for running the cross compiled binaries.I have to set a fixed IP address for the host of 192.168.0.50.Then I can telnet with the target to run the compiled binaries on the NFS folder. Also as the VM host is not connected to the corporate network.I cannot use the company issued SVN for version control.So what I do is have a shared folder via virtual box between Windows and Linux host and I manually keep transferring the files which I have to commit/test.
What I would I ideally like, is both networks connected to the corporate network,so that I can update the OS,use version control.Is there way by which the VM on Windows access the corporate network and also be connected to the target.IT is not willing to give a static IP to the target.If we connect the target via DHCP what is the best way to discover it on the network.Also IT is concerned about the traffic it will generate.Can I use a switch to create a subnetwork,so that the target can have a fixed address?
Another question is they are open to a linux based host as well.Is a VM based linux any worse off than a Linux PC.The only problem I have been having are networking based issues,not really Virtualbox issues.But I am curious to know if there are any limitations at all.
In order to have the VM connected to the corporate network, you can setup the VM network adapter in bridge mode.
In order to discover the embedded device, you can use the arp command (for instance: arm -i eth0 -a).
If you have got two network interfaces you could also connect the remote device directly through this interface and setup a dhcp server in your VM.
Personally, I think that with the VM you can do everything that you need (cross-compiling the Kernel and bootloader and creating the remote File System). I have been using a VM for embedded linux development on a AT91SAM board without problems at all.

Access files on Linux mint VirtualBox guest

I have a Linux virtualbox that I use for development. The stuff I'd like to share to the host operating system resides in /var/www. I tried setting up a samba share, but I can't seem to see my virtualbox on the network. Does anyone know how I'd go about doing this? I searched, but the only thing I've found is virtualbox's shared folders which isn't quite what I'm looking for.
By default VirtualBox networking defaults to an internal NAT implementation, which only allows the guest to access the network and not the other way around.
To access the guest from the host you have to use a different networking mode.
My preferred solution is host-only networking, because the guest appears as a proper networked-machine on the host, without being exposed to the public network.
Bridged networking would also do, but you'd have to secure the guest as if it was a separate machine and there may be networks where having two MAC addresses for a single physical PC is not advised or even allowed.
Why aren't shared folders what you are looking for, anyway?

Web Access to Virtual Machine

Is their a way to access a web server such as windows server 2003 installed on a virtual box such as vmware from the host machine?
If VMware is set to use bridged networking, then each guest OS effectively has its own IP address, like brien said, you just point your browser to that address.
If you configure your virtual machine to use bridged networking, instead of NAT, it will have its own IP address "beside" the host machine, instead of a local IP address "behind" it. Then you can connect to the virtual machine, using that IP number.
(Disclaimer: I've used VMware workstation for several years, but not their server products.)
Yes, you should just be able to point to the IP address of the VM.
How is your VM networking configured?
I am doing this all over the place, just make sure that the vm has an ip configured.
i believe vmware (workstation?) also has built in a virtual network client (VNC) that you can connect to - enable it by going to the configuration properties of the vm, and in the last tab there is a checkbox for it.
IP address should do it.
I faced the same issue. You have to set your networkconnection to "bridged mode" in your VM. Then you have to find out the IP of your Webserver.
Sometimes Webservers have a redirect to a specific URL. In this case you can edit your host-file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts and add your IP with the redirected URL like this:
192.168.0.37 some.url-you.need
Then your Host can go to the Webserver. Even participants of your Ethernet can access the Webserver.

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