# Perspective Workstation on a virtual machine **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [July 30, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113 "2025-07-30T01:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gareth.lovell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gareth.lovell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gareth.lovell)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/1 "2025-07-30T01:07:52Z")
Hi All, I am new to Ignition and virtual machines (VMware). I have a scenario where I am trying to launch a perspective workstation on a virtual machine. The project is on the host machine Ignition Gateway. I can't see the host gateway on the virtual machine though. I imagine it is a simple config thing that I am not aware of. How do I get that connection setup correctly? Regards, Gareth ---
**Author:** ![robertm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@robertm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/robertm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/2 "2025-07-30T01:20:05Z")
How is your host machine obtaining its IP? DHCP or static? You can set it up a number of ways, but depends on the flexibility you have of setting the host and VM IPs. ---
**Author:** ![gareth.lovell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gareth.lovell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gareth.lovell)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/3 "2025-07-30T01:21:58Z")
Hi, thanks for the reply. DHCP. regards, gareth ---
**Author:** ![gareth.lovell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gareth.lovell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gareth.lovell)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/4 "2025-07-30T01:40:35Z")
I can use NAT or bridged or host I think. The gateway I want appears in the "Add Application" and starts "checking" but disappears after a while. I try manually but the "host unreachable" error shows. Regards, Gareth ---
**Author:** ![robertm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@robertm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/robertm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/5 "2025-07-30T10:19:33Z")
You can use bridged, and statically set the VM IP to be in the same subnet as the DCHP assigned host. If your VM and host are windows based, check that you can ping the host. You can install telnet on your VM and also determine if port 8088 is open between the two (should be). If that passes, then you should be able to assign a connection to the host gateway. ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/6 "2025-07-30T10:43:05Z")
You will most likely need to allow incoming connections on your ignition gateway server to TCP port 8088 ---
**Author:** ![gareth.lovell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gareth.lovell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gareth.lovell)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/7 "2025-07-30T22:37:28Z")
Thank you both, I will try these steps and reply again if I get it to work. appreciate this. regards, gareth ---
**Author:** ![gareth.lovell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gareth.lovell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gareth.lovell)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-workstation-on-a-virtual-machine/109113/8 "2025-08-04T05:22:04Z")
There was a firewall rule that needed to be added for the port. regards, gareth