# Configuring dnsmasq with VMware Workstation

DevFeed: [Configuring dnsmasq with VMware Workstation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/configuring-dnsmasq-with-vmware-workstation-21921.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/10/dnsmasq-and-vmware/>)

Author: Nelson Elhage

Published: 2010-10-24T23:15:23Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Nelson Elhage](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nelson-elhage.md>)

Topics: [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [dhcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dhcp.md>), [domain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/domain.md>), [install](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/install.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [local](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local.md>), [nat](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nat.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>), [vmware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vmware.md>), [workstation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workstation.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on configuring VMware Workstation virtual machines to use dnsmasq for DHCP address assignment and local DNS resolution, allowing VM hostnames to be accessed from the host over a local NAT network.

## Source excerpt

I love VMware workstation. I keep VMs around for basically every version of every major Linux distribution, and use them heavily for all kinds of kernel testing and development. This post is a quick writeup of my networking setup with VMware Workstation, using dnsmasq to assign my VMs addresses and provide a DNS server to resolve VM addresses. The objective I want to be able to resolve my VM's hostnames so that I can ssh to them, or run other network services and access them from the host.