VM connection

[Guest]

Hello,
I have a VM running on a laptop. I wanted to use bridged connection on VM to be able to access other computers in the network and internet.
The problem i have is whenever i use laptop not connected to LAN i do not get the ip for the VM.
What would be my options to solve it?
My first gues was 2 separate networks 1 bridged and one host only. Does this make sense?
Is there simplier way of doing this?
Please help.P

 

[asktod]

Yes this makes sense, you would be using the same network configurations for the VM as you would if you were setting up a virtualization server with nova. Bridge the connection so the VM looks as a seperate computer on the network thus allowing physical computer abilities among the network. Check out this thread.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/118943