On my personal server, I am using a laptop without using a VM, I had to hard set my IP address. primarily to set the port forwarding on my router. I am also running a VM machine on my PC. My VM machine also had a problem with connecting to the network. VM's don't seem to like sharing the NIC card, well the one I am using anyway. I had to setup a bridge connector, fortunately I have a second NIC that it can use exclusively. My VM machine is Oracle VM VirtualBox. Hope this helps.
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