I have been working to resolve an issue with VMware Server and Windows 7 for about a month now. I have determined that BFE/WFP are the root cause of myissues. When I create a VM within VMware I can ping anything I want (google.com, yahoo.com, internal, intranet, etc.), but any higher level traffic (http, https, telnet, smtp, etc.) fails. I have done numerous traffic captures between VM and physical networks. Recently I have been paying more attention to BFE and WFP and started noticing 5152 erros logged in the security logs. Below is an example of the blocked packet log: The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a packet.Application Information:Process ID: 0Application Name: -Network Information:Direction: InboundSource Address: 91.189.88.140Source Port: 80Destination Address: 192.168.225.101Destination Port: 49643Protocol: 6Filter Information:Filter Run-Time ID: 66338Layer Name: TransportLayer Run-Time ID: 13Immediately preceeding this block is the following log:The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a connection.Application Information:Process ID: 244Application Name: \device\harddiskvolume1\windows\system32\vmnat.exeNetwork Information:Direction: OutboundSource Address: 192.168.225.101Source Port: 49643Destination Address: 91.189.88.140Destination Port: 80Protocol: 6Filter Information:Filter Run-Time ID: 66181Layer Name: ConnectLayer Run-Time ID: 48So I have proven that the packet is coming out of the VM and being properly handled by VMNAT. For some reason, BFE is not allowing the return packet. I have tried disabling BFE, modifying firewall policies, and everything I can think of to open up the filter all to no effect.Anyone else have any ideas on how to stop BFE from blocking these valid packets?

We do not support virtual machine issues with Windows 7 in this forum. You may want to seek support from VMWare on such issues.