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voidmain:
I could be wrong, but I believe you at least need the NIC. It also may have to be plugged into something (a hub) and have a link light. But you should be able to network the Linux guest with the windows host without having any other computers on the network. Actually, I don't believe the card would have to be plugged in to anything but I am not sure.

The only way I can think of that would allow you to network the two without a network card is if you could use your loopback device as a network card. Might want to search VMware's site or google to see if it is possible.

[ November 08, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

hm_murdock:
wow. that's madness. I can network Mac OS and Windows in VPC 5 without using any hardware. VMWare would require you to go out from one card and into another in the SAME MACHINE?!?

I understand that VMWare isn't the same as VPC, but if they can abstract networking hardware in a PC emulator, certainly they can do it inside of a single PC?!?

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by The Jimmy James X 10.3.6 / Bob:
wow. that's madness. I can network Mac OS and Windows in VPC 5 without using any hardware. VMWare would require you to go out from one card and into another in the SAME MACHINE?!?

--- End quote ---


No, only one NIC is needed. I run several OSs at the same time on one machine with one NIC. They all appear on my network as a separate machine and they all can talk to each other as if they were on their own hardware.  I just don't know if you can do it without a NIC, although it should be possible using the loopback interface (software).

Actually I just did a little research on VMware's web site and I believe if you do a "Host Only" network setup you would not need a NIC. In the few years of using VMware I have never set it up as "Host Only" as testing networking on different OSs is my primary need for VMware.

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_network2.html#1008276

[ November 08, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Stryker:
I got it. I didn't see the hardware place... I just added a network card (not physically... but in the options) and chose to go host-only and it works great. The only thing I had to be sure to do was change it off of dhcp. I took out my network card and it still worked fine so i'm sure that aspect isn't much different from VPC or what it was you were talking about on the mac. I'm loving this vmware though... i'll probably buy it.

voidmain:
It may not be a worthwhile investment for everyone but it sure was for me. I prefer to run Linux as my host OS though and then install other OSs in their own VMware sessions.

[ November 09, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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