Static IP Address Suite CRM 7 - Ubuntu 22 Virtual Machine in VMWare Fusion

Stacey · 7 July 2022 01:51

Does anyone know how to set up a static IP address for SuiteCRM 7 on Ubuntu 22.04, running on a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion 12.2.1?

I have tried going through multiple instructions without any luck.

I’ve configured the static IP address on the VM itself using various methods including the ones below:

I’ve updated my SuiteCRM config.php file to point to the new IP address, and I’ve tried assigning the static IP within the VMWare Fusion settings (using various methods there as well including the following):
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80793

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/pjkelly/1068716/921c8b62ca07e29a7312e81e7b2efa88b69858ab

setup-vmware-image-with-static-IP.markdown

# How to setup your VMWare Fusion images to use static IP addresses on Mac OS X

At [Crush + Lovely](http://crushlovely.com), we use [Railsmachine's](http://railsmachine.com) [Moonshine](http://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine) to automate the configuration of our servers.  When writing our deployment recipes, VMWare Fusion's ability to take snapshots and rollback to these snapshots is a huge timesaver because it takes just seconds to roll a server image to it's original state.

When you're just configuring a single server, having a static IP address for your server image isn't too important, but when you're configuring multi-server setups, it can be useful to duplicate a number of server images and give each a static IP address so you can consistently deploy to them.  While not documented well at all, it turns out that this is relatively easy to accomplish in four simple steps.

## 1. Determine the MAC address of your guest machine

Let's say you have a guest machine with the name `ubuntu-lucid-lynx-base` and you keep your guest machine images in `~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines/`.  To determine the MAC address for this VM, you can run:

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I’ve also tried setting it through the VMWare GUI within the Network Adapter menu. Nothing I have tried has worked though. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your time in advance!

pgr · 7 July 2022 08:20

Is this Ubuntu Server or Ubuntu Desktop?

Apart from any SuiteCRM issues, I didn’t understand whether your IP setting was successful in Ubuntu or not? If you type ip addr do you see the correct static address?

Stacey · 7 July 2022 12:52

Hey @pgr! Thanks so much for your help!

This is Ubuntu Server, and no… when I type ip addr , it shows the address that it seems to be getting via DHCP, but I’m not sure why.

At one point, (I believe it was after following the CLI instructions here: How to Configure Static IP Address on Ubuntu 22.04 – TecAdmin ), it was showing two IP addresses tied the the same interface but I didn’t think that was possible. It was showing the same DHCP address that SuiteCRM is loading on, and showing the correct static IP that I set. It showed two lines under “ens33” that began with “inet [ip_address]”

pgr · 7 July 2022 15:05

I’m no expert in netplan Ubuntu network settings (and this is really not a SuiteCRM issue!)

but have a look at this

I once had that double-ip address problem and it was transient, related to me messing around with configs… I solved it with a simple reboot… and perhaps a network restart would have been enough.

Stacey · 7 July 2022 20:14

Hey @pgr!

Thanks so much for the very helpful information! I did a few reboots after making changes, but it still showed the double IP addresses. The strange thing is that I didn’t have the configuration files that most instructional documents refer to for configuring it. At first, I wasn’t sure if this was a VM issue, or an issue with SuiteCRM not loading on the preferred address. The document you have shared though was still great, and helped me to realize that there was a second config file that the system was pulling the DHCP address from (I didn’t realize it was set there). I ended up removing that file, and everything is looking great and working as expected!

Thanks again for all of your time!