VMWare Lease Viewer

Quickly find the IP Addresses of your Virtual Machines on Windows

You just spun up a virtual machine in VMware Workstation for Windows. Maybe you want to connect over Remote Desktop. Maybe you need to SSH in. But you need its IP address.

Under most configurations, VMware hands out IP addresses to your virtual machines through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). It keeps a record of every lease in a file on your host machine. The problem is that file is buried in your system folders, full of timestamps in UTC, and packed with expired entries you do not care about.

This tool reads that file for you. It filters out the stale stuff, converts the times to your local zone, and shows you a clean list. IP address, hostname, plus MAC address for every VM that has an active lease right now. I built it because I got tired of logging into VMs through the console just to run "ipconfig" or "ip -a".

VMWare Lease Viewer automatically finds the VMware lease file and parses it. Active leases show up in a simple table. The display refreshes every 30 seconds so new VMs appear without you lifting a finger. If you need to check a different lease file, just click the file path near the top of the window. Requirements

• Windows 10 Build 1903 or later

• VMware Workstation installed on the same machine

 Updated Feb 27, 2026

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