Connect Windows virtual machine to my local network

Question

I had this working for the last couple of years, but today I updated to Windows 10 and I guess the settings got removed and now I have a problem. So I have a private network, 192.168.0.0/24 . I have a few laptops and other things connected, as well, I have a virtual machine running inside on vmware. This virtual machine needs to be accessed by my other machines on the network so it needs a local IP address (Inside the vm it is set as 192.168.0.100). The problem now is when I turn on the machine it says it does not have access. Inside of the VMWare settings I have the network connection set as Custom and it has VMnet1 selected. I remember a couple of years ago I set up something inside of my host machine to enable vmnet1 to work, but I have googled now, but can't find what I did exactly previously to make it work. So simply I need my virtual machine (windows 7) running inside of my host (Windows 10) to look like just another computer on the network so my other machines can communicate with it.

I have tried working with the virtual network editor where I put VMnet1 as host only and then in my physical adapter's properties allowed sharing, but I can't quite get it to work.

Solution

For the VM to be on the same physical network as the host, you should set the VMnet mode to bridged in the network editor, not host-only, neither NAT.