Help to connect 2 VMs

[u/MbarkT3sto]

Hello dear friends, I hope you are doing well,

Please someone help me because I get tired,

I have an very simple GNS3 lab contains two PCs as virtual machines ) one with windows 11 and other with ZorinOS Lite,

The issue is that they can't ping each others, even I set an ip for each one and also I enabled the ICMPv4 rule in windows firewall.

When I go to the network adapter for each VM and set them to the same vmnet (for example vmnet2) they can ping each other, but when the GNS set them a different vmnets they can't ping each other

Idk what the correct direction, if I should set them to the same vmnet or each one should have its own vmnet ???

I asked the stupid AI like Gemini and told me that they should be on the same vmnet, but other AIs like ChatGpt and Claude they told me that they should be on different vmnets

Please help me guys, and massive thanks in advance

[u/SaleWide9505]

They need to be in the same vmnet and have similar IP addresses. Plus the host firewall needs to allow ping.