I'm experimenting with comms between guests.
I've created a new virtual network, and a new virtual switch.
I have two Win 2012r2 guests. I have added a VMXNET3 adapter to both, and after installing VMware tools the OS's have loaded device drivers for them.
I have configured them to have fixed IPs of 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 respectively.
When I load up the Network page, I see this
so it looks like the the VMXNET3 adapters should be talking to each other, but... they can't ping each other.
I have not set a DNS on either machine, but I assume this is not necessary as I'm using their IP numbers, not hostnames.
The physical adapter (vmnic1) isn't connected to anything but again I assume this isn't necessary as I'm not trying to connect to anything external.
What am I missing here?