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Home Lab Setup - PA VM + Windows 10 (Vmware)

echahine — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:28:21 GMT

Hi guys, I have a beginner's question I'd like to ask.

I want to set up my own home lab on VMware workstation 16 and something doesn't add up.

First, my simple network topology is the following:

My home network is on a 192.168.1.X network (default gateway 192.168.1.1) .
I have a PA-VM 10.1 with a management ip of 192.168.1.222 (default gateway 192.168.1.1) with 2 interfaces configured: eth1/1 for the Outside zone with IP 192.168.1.250/24 and an Inside Zone on eth1/2 with IP 10.1.1.250/24.
I also set up a Windows 10 machine in Workstation for testing purpouses, I set the static IP to 10.1.1.10 , netmask 255.255.255.0 , default gateway is the eth1/2 (i.e 10.1.1.254) , DNS is 8.8.8.8
I configured a NAT policy from the inside zone to the outside zone and also configured a default route for the default VR.
Also configured a security policy from Inside to Outside and Outside to Inside in order to access the internet
Configured Mgmt profiles to enable ping for both interfaces.

Background information: I saw somewhere that I should go to Virtual Network Editor and add a Vmnet with DHCP disabled with a 10.1.1.0 IP so it could be assigned to an additional interface for the PA VM and for the Windows 10 Network Driver.

So I created a VMnet3 with DHCP off and IP 10.1.1.0 and assigned it to the third Network Adapter (eth1/2) for PA VM and also for the Network Adapter of the Windows 10 machine.

All the above were completed, and still, I can't ping anything from my Windows 10 machine (not the interface, nor the internet). The Windows 10 machine is not visible on any traffic logs, and I'm pretty sure it's not reaching the network for some reason. I'm sure I'm missing something still, I just don't know what exactly.

YOUR HELP IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED.

Re: Home Lab Setup - PA VM + Windows 10 (Vmware)

LAYER_8 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:36:57 GMT

If you want to save yourself a lot of time and know without a doubt the Palo config is good to go, use our XML-API based solution builder, IronSkillet.

Instructions on pulling the container to Docker are here.

Then you are able to import a skillet using the following link here (use the github repo).

After that, in two clicks you'll have rules and topologies built to best practice. This will further confirm that you may require more troubleshooting within VMWare.

Re: Home Lab Setup - PA VM + Windows 10 (Vmware)

samy_ccnp — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:19:35 GMT

Hello ,

I have the same issue .

Did you find any answer on this ?

Re: Home Lab Setup - PA VM + Windows 10 (Vmware)

samy_ccnp — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:57:04 GMT

Hi ,

I have solved this problem , i think you have configured the wrong subnetmask on the respective interface , I assumed you have configured /32 for the ip address but you need to change it to /24 if your network belong to /24

Re: Home Lab Setup - PA VM + Windows 10 (Vmware)

echahine — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:54:55 GMT

Hi Samy,

It was a fairly silly mistake. You should just set up the default gateway of the server the same as the interface (10.1.1.250 in my case).

As mentioned before, it was a rookie mistake from my side.

Re: Home Lab Setup - PA VM + Windows 10 (Vmware)

dimasrudisaputra — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:08:34 GMT

Hi sir i have problem when set up lab PA-VM in vmware pro 16 windows 11, i'm success booting until login via cli or gui but a few momment PanOS stopping own and this repeating? any suggest sir?because you also setup lab same in vmware pro, please help me solved this problem