Hello everyone. I’d like the forum’s sage advice regarding a particular environment I’m in the process of configuring.
I have VMware Server 2 installed on my XP laptop, which is connected to a DSL modem via an on-board NIC. Said laptop also has a PCMCIA NIC installed in it.
I’d like to take a virtual XP workstation and connect it to a cable modem via the PCMCIA NIC in order to test connecting the host and guest machines securely through the public internet. For this exercise, I need the two machines to be completely separate and thus have no way of reaching or in any way interacting with the other except by way of the wide area link.
The following is a list of what I’ve done so far. I’d like to know if there’s anything I’ve missed. Perhaps more steps need to be taken that I’m unaware of.
Thank you in advance for your collective time.
1) Disabled all services associated with the PCMCIA NIC on the host machine, including TCP/IP, except the VMware Bridge Protocol.
2) Bonded the aft mentioned PCMCIA NIC to VMnet2 via VMware’s Virtual Network Editor.
3) Excluded the PCMCIA NIC from Automatic Bridging via the Virtual Network Editor.
4) Configured the virtual ethernet device of the guest XP instance to use the custom VMnet2 network.
5) Set the “NetworkAddress” property of the network connection in the guest XP instance to the MAC address of the PCMCIA NIC per step seven of the following post - http://communities.vmware.com/message/378576;jsessionid=034FC6E865C0DB28AD269D7445F2AD0D
P.S. - How might these steps differ for a Linux (openSUSE 11) guest machine, especially step 5 from my list above?