nmap says 0 hosts up even though I can ping

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Published on 2012-08-26T05:45:35Z Indexed on 2012/08/28 3:41 UTC
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I'm running Metasploit from Win 7 x64, and I've set up my Metasploitable 2 virtual machine on VMware Player. I can ping Metasploitable's IP address from the Metasploit console, however if I use nmap it says:

Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probles, try -Pn

I try it with the -Pn switch, it says

Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.64 seconds

I've disabled my Windows firewall and I'm running Metasploit as admin. Why can't I nmap my virtual machine?

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