Re: Win2K3E & Multiple NICs

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Yes, you can do that. But the host machine does not have to see those networks.

When you install VPC or Virtual Server, extra code is added to the device drivers for the NICs in the host. This allows traffic for virtual machines to use the physical NIC. Ther extra code reroutes packets addressed to a vm to the the OS running in the vm, not the network stack in the host. In the network properties of the NIC on the host, this is represented by the Virtual Machine Network Services.

You can control the way the NIC works using this setting. If you want the NIC to be used by the host only, you clear the checkbox for VMNS. This NIC will not be available to virtual machines. On the other hand, if you clear all of the boxes except VMNS, the vms can use the NIC but not the host.

"Noctaire" <noctaire@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:upFl3ZAeIHA.4164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phil/Bill,

This is going a bit further in a different direction but since it has....

Bearing in mind I'm only just starting to get a handle on Microsoft's virtual machine app, my impression of the virtual environment is that I can set up actual, physical NICs on the server that go to entirely different network segments then bind a virtual machine to those separate NICs. Is that correct or am I missing something?

James

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