Re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 networking

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Yes, that should work. If you can see the physical NIC listed as on option, the extra code should have been added to the NIC driver to handle traffic for a vm. The vm should look just like another machine on the LAN from a networking point of view (ie it will have its own MAC address and its own IP address).

There is one problem which can arise. Is the host on a corporate LAN? Some switches will not allow multiple MAC addresses to use the same switch port. If that is the case you will need two NICs in the host, each connected to a different switch port (one for the host and one for the vm).

"Mizzleman" <Mizzleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BD931936-4C3A-4383-A08C-C4A8504315F2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I have VS2005R2 running on a Win2k3 Ent. box. I've create a single VM that
it's network adapter is configured to use the External physical box's
adapter. It can't seem to contact anything, no ping, tracert, etc. What could
be the issue? The host machine has no connectivity issues at all.

I'm sure I can solve this by using a second nic and creating virtual
network, etc. But is that the only way? Isn't a VM supposed to be able to use
the phsyical nic without creating the virtual network?

Thanks.

.

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