can not connect to socket inside vmware vm - c

Question

I created a server socket in C. This is the most basic stuff like what you would fine in a simple TCP server example. Server code is below. I also created a client socket that runs on the host machine. Code also below. However, for some reason the client is not able to connect to the server. The IP address I used is the same as the one under the entry eth0 from the "ip addr" command. The network adapter of the VM is a bridged connection.
The exact same code works when both client and server run on the same machine (the host).
Thank you!
Server code:
int sockfd;
int clientfd;
struct sockaddr_in self;
struct sockaddr_in client_addr;
int addrlen = sizeof (client_addr);
if ((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
perror("Socket");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
printf("Socket descriptor is: %d\n", sockfd);
memset(&self, 0, sizeof (self));
self.sin_family = AF_INET;
self.sin_port = htons(MY_PORT);
self.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*) &self, sizeof (self)) != 0) {
perror("socket--bind");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
if (listen(sockfd, 20) != 0) {
perror("socket--listen");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
clientfd = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*) &client_addr, &addrlen);
printf("%s:%d connected\n", inet_ntoa(client_addr.sin_addr), ntohs(client_addr.sin_port));
Client Code:
int sock;
struct sockaddr_in server;
//struct sockaddr_in client;
struct hostent *hp;
//char buf[BUFFER_SIZE];
if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
die(6, "Opening stream socket");
printf("Client socket file descriptor is: %d\n", sock);
memset(&server, (char) 0, sizeof (server));
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
hp = gethostbyname(host_name);
if (!hp) {
//sprintf(buf, "%s: unknown host\n", host_name);
die(8, "%s: unknown host\n", host_name);
}
memcpy(hp->h_addr, &server.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
server.sin_port = htons((u_short) SERVER_PORT);
/* Try to connect */
if ((connect(sock, (struct sockaddr *) &server, sizeof (server))) < 0)
die(7, "%s", "Failed to connect stream socket\n");