To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Canot access PostgreSQL via psql -h (Vmware Fusion)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:57:22 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:35:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> "No route to host" doesn't have anything to do with whether there's
> anything listening on the target port ... what's more likely is that the
> OP mistyped the IP address, or else there's something wrong with his
> network layout, interface netmask assignments,
> that sort of thing.

I don't know about VMWare, but with VirtualBox if you set up two guests 
with NAT they are sharing the host's IP address as far as the outside 
world is concerned. So each can see the host and the outside world, but 
they can't see one another.