Hi les, Tnx a lot for your answer! As expected, the solution was indeed wery simple, and was found within 10 seconds after reading your crucial hint: >NAT and bridged are 2 different settings. Shut down the VM, change the setting for the interface >and restart. For some reason which is beyond me, as opposed to VMware, indeed it was set to 'shared network' instead of bridged! Switching it to bridged, and then manually setting the IP address as desired in CentOS works a charm. Tnx a lot, and cheers! Olafo