Virtual machines and networks ?

hackerman1 · **Joined:** Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:55 am **Posts:** 166

Hi !

Any experts on virtual machines and networking here ?

Scenario: a lab with 2 PC´s, #1 running W7, #2 running Linux.
#1 is used for network commands, monitoring, and communicating with #2

Would it be possible to use only 1 PC, and install Linux in a virtual machine with fx. VmWare / VirtualBox on #1 ?
Can the main system communicate with the virtual system, will network commands work ?

Arris · **Posted:** Sat Nov 10, 2012 3:48 pm

In VMware it is possible to create a virtual network (using the Virtual Network Editor) to which you can attach virtual machines for communication only between the virtual machines. If you for example want to use #1 as gateway to the Internet you can set it up like:

Code:

                                [====================================]
                                [       Virtual Machine Host         ]    
                                [                                    ]
                                [ [====]                     [=====] ]
[Internet]  --{Physical Network}--[ W7 ]--{Virtual Network}--[Linux] ]
                                [ [====]                     [=====] ]
                                [                                    ]
                                [====================================]

In the W7 VM you will thus have 2 NIC's, one connected to the physical network and one connected to the virtual network to which the Linux VM is also connected to.

I don't know what you mean with network commands, but everything should work just like it would on a non-virtualized environment.

Hope this helps you a bit!

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