Hmm, I'll have to think about this. At work I'm running vmplayer on XP and at home I have it on Gentoo. For work, at this point I just want to have the vmplayer session to run Linux mail and news clients (because Windows doesn't have anything worthwhile). This is at work and I have a static IP address that is allowed through to the outside so I have to use the address of the host.
Where do I find docs that go into all of this? Thank you for the explanation. On Sunday January 15 2006 20:05, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/15/06, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you explain host vs bridge vs other network options? I want to have > > vmplayer use the same IP address as the system it's running on. > > The closest to what you said would be NAT networking. In this case, > the guest receives an address on a private network, but can > communicate with the outside world using the host's address. However, > nothing on the outside can get services from your guest. > > If you want your guest to provide services to the rest of your > network, you need bridged networking. In this case, both the host and > the guest show up on the network at different MAC addresses, and thus > can get different IP addresses. It is just like if they were separate > computers. > > Host networking is only if you do not want the guest to communicate > with the outside at all. The only machine it can communicate with is > the host (or other guests) on a private network. > > You can actually create multiple network cards for the guest using any > combination of the above. I have used host-only networking to provide > samba shares to the guest, without exporting them to the rest of the > world, plus a bridged network connection for the guest to participate > in the LAN. > > -Richard -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
