How to connect redis-cli on Windows to redis on Linux (on VMware)

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I have Windows 8 as a host and Linux guest on VMware and installed redis on Linux, redis works correctly.

I don't know how to connect a redis-cli -h [ipAddress] to redis on Linux with VMware.

  1. How to config network on Linux, Windows 8 and VMware ?

  2. I don't know which [ipAddress] to use to connect redis on Linux with VMware?

[update]

I have ping from windows and I can connect redis-cli on Linux (on VMware) to redis-server on Windows.

I use Install Redis

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Are you trying to connect to redis remotely from another linux machine? - raffian
no, I use VMware and I don't know configure network for it. - Amir Movahedi
If this is a networking question, you should ask at serverfault.com or superuser.com - raffian
Depends on the kind of networking you are using for your linux guest. If bridged, you should be able to grab the ip address of the linux host by running ifconfig on the linux command line. Then connect to that. - Carl Zulauf

2 Answers

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I had a similar situation with Redis running on Ubuntu 12 on VirtualBox and then running Windows 7 as the host. I was having trouble connecting from Windows 7 to the Ubuntu machine.

I had to edit my redis.conf (/etc/redis/redis.conf on Ubuntu) file and comment out this line:

#bind 127.0.0.1

Worked for me.

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Sounds like a networking/firewall issue. You should connect to the redis server through redis-cli the same way no matter what operating system the server and client are on. This should always be redis-cli -h [ipAddress].