When you create a 32-bit VMware VM, by default it picks certain virtual hardware (e.g. the AMD PCNet32 NIC) that it cannot emulate for a 64-bit guest. So you might need to open it in VMware ...
I am not sure how to check in Ubuntu, but have you verified that SELinux is allowing it? On RHEL/Fedora/CentOS you can run getenforce to find out what mode it is running, and you can use sealert (once ...