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Can someone please help me get my virtual PC setup. I have done oodles of searches on Google and in forums and I am unable to get a real concise answer as to how to get this to work. Basically here is my situation.

 

I have Vista Ultimate as a Host computer
I have Virtual PC 2007 running an instance of Server 2008 as the Guest Virtual Computer.

 

I have 1 nic card on the PC connected to a wireless adapter which connects me to the internet.

 

I would like to have one IP address for my Host Computer and I would like to have a different IP address for the Guest Virtual Computer so I can communicate with both through my network. I have done lots of searches for this and I have found posts indicating i need to setup a virtual switch but when I follow the path to setup the virtual switch I don't see the virtual switch option. (its currently setup on shared NAT, which from what I read, will not allow the host and guest PCs to talk to each other).

 

I currently can get to the internet from the virtual PC and can get to the internet from the host PC. but I cant ping either from the other and basically am missing the networking expertise to get them talking together.

 

Can anyone help?

 


P.s. Yes, same workgroup.


Message edited by winrot on 04-21-2009 at 08:06:00 PM
I don't use virtual PC but on VMware you set the network up in bridged mode.
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I don't use virtual PC but on VMware you set the network up in bridged mode.

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All right, Ill give that a try.

The topic doesn't seem to get much traction so perhaps there is not a good answer out there. Thanks for the help.

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