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This might be a shot in the dark but I believe it has to do with the network adapter configuration you’ve setup for your vm. In Vmware Workstation (I’m not as familiar with VMware Player) there’s usually a NAT, Bridged, Host Only and Custom options available. If you had selected the NAT option then that would explain why you could access the Internet from the Guest OS (ubuntu) but no other machines would be able to talk to it. Give Bridged a try as this option connects your VM directly to the physical network and should provide your VM with an IP Address direct from your router. At which point you can port forward your router to the VM to make it accessible from the internet.