Win7 PC running Rails in an Ubuntu VM via VMWare Player. I'm working on a site and would like to show it to a friend who's outside my network.
I found this blog post, which got me very close: http://blog.fardad.com/2012/06/vmware-player-and-custom-nat-port-map.html
OK, so I have the VM that is using NAT. As I understand it, that means that the VM will appear to have the same IP address as the parent machine to outside traffic.
I went into NAT settings and added port forwarding:
Host Port: 8200 Type: UDP Virtual IP Address: 192.168.198.184:3000
OK so my understanding is that I should now be able to go to 192.168.1.1xx:8200 (the IP of my 'real' PC) and access the webserver running in the VM. But when I go to that address, I don't get anything. I can ping 192.168.198.184 (the VM) from the PC.
What I want to be able to do is go into my router and set up a port that will eventually forward into the VM.
It seems like I'm missing something very small but I don't know what that is. Help, please.