ip configuration could not be reserved (no available address timeout etc.)

I am running VMware Fusion with multiple VMs on it. But recently all but one of 4 VMs has internet connection. The network devices on my centos machine is available but I can't bring it and the DHCP doesn't seem to provide IP addresses.

When I cat etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-ens33 the configuration is as follow:

TYPE="Ethernet"
PROXY_METHOD="none"
BROWSER_ONLY="no"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
DEFROUT="yes"
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6INIT="yes"
IPV6_AUTOCONF="yes"
IPV6_DEFROUT="yes"
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE="stable-privacy"
NAME="ens33"
UUID="b8cc7497-b5c5-4303-9e34-3fb36aed04ab"
DEVICE="ens33"
ONBOOT="yes"

And when I try to connect the ens33 device i get the following error:

nmcli device connect ens33

output:

Error: connection activation failed: (5) IP configuration could not be reserved(no available addresses, timeout, etc.).

I looked up the error on RedHat access and i couldn't find a viable solution. Yet one of my VMs with a static IP and the following network script configuration works just fine and connect to the internet:

TYPE="Ethernet"
PROXY_METHOD="none"
BROWSER_ONLY="no"
BOOTPROTO="none"
DEFROUTE="yes"
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6INIT="yes"
IPV6_AUTOCONF="yes"
IPV6_DEFROUTE="yes"
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE="stable-privacy"
NAME="ens33"
UUID="87d3aec8-983c-4bf5-bb0e-4bb8d3a090d2"
DEVICE="ens33"
ONBOOT="yes"
IPADDR="192.168.4.200"
PREFIX="24"
GATEWAY="192.168.4.2"
DNS1="8.8.8.8"
IPV6_PRIVACY="no"
ZONE=public

Your help will be very much apriciated.

3 Answers

I had the same problem (except in VMWare Workstation and not Fusion), and in my case, Linux-side setup was okay. Static IP didn't work either.

The problem was in VMWare networking.

I've had a bunch of VPNs, inactive Wi-Fi connections and other virtual adapters in host OS (Windows), and VMWare was auto-routing bridged network to the wrong adapter. I switched VMnet0 from automatic to specific physical Ethernet adapter (using Virtual Network Editor), and that solved the problem.

I had the same problem in VMware Fusion with CentOS 7.5 and same error. I had been playing with the contents of the route-ens33 file and that was the issue. Once I edited that file the nmcli command worked. I was trying to mix the two different styles of routing directives in the file. Apparently the ifup script is ...frailware? I haven't read a don't mix the two different styles directive anywhere.

try like this :

TYPE="Ethernet"
PROXY_METHOD="none"
BROWSER_ONLY="no"
BOOTPROTO="none"
DEFROUT="yes"
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6INIT="yes"
IPV6_AUTOCONF="yes"
IPV6_DEFROUT="yes"
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL="no"
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE="stable-privacy"
NAME="ens33"
UUID="b8cc7497-b5c5-4303-9e34-3fb36aed04ab"
DEVICE="ens33"
ONBOOT="yes"