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Aug 4, 2006 6:45 AM

Dedicate physical network adapter to VM

Hello,

 

My VMware host is a Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 with 3 physical network adapters

 

I would like to dedicate on of the 3 adapters to a VM.

I think I must change the VM network settings and select one VMnet and in the host network setting attribute to this VMnet the specific adapter I choose.

But how can I be sure all incoming connections won't affect the host?

Will the host able to communicate to any other systems through this adpater?

 

Maybe my question isn't very clear...

Thanks by advance for your help, idea or suggestion

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1. Aug 4, 2006 7:01 AM in response to: fbuono
Re: Dedicate physical network adapter to VM

There's no way, necessarily, to "dedicate" adapters to a specific VM.  What you can do is use the Network Settings manager (in the VMware Program Files folder) to create a new bridged vmnet adapter that you bridge to a specific network card.  You can then make sure that you only assign that bridged adapter to one VM.  If you want to make sure the host doesn't communicate through that adapter and that the VM is the only thing communicating through the adapter, unbind all other protocols from the adapter except the VMware bridging protocol.

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2. Aug 4, 2006 8:15 AM in response to: nick.couchman
Re: Dedicate physical network adapter to VM

\[quote]unbind all other protocols from the adapter except the VMware bridging protocol[/quote]

 

How do you do that? with a firewall on the host? or something else?

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3. Aug 4, 2006 8:19 AM in response to: fbuono
Re: Dedicate physical network adapter to VM

No, you go into the Network Connections Control Panel and the properties for the adapter and you deselect all of the clients/protocols except the VMware Bridging protocol (if I recall correctly - I don't use VMware on Windows a lot, so I could be a little off on that).

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4. Aug 4, 2006 8:33 AM in response to: fbuono
Re: Dedicate physical network adapter to VM

Seems to be the perfect solution...

Let's try it now!

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5. Aug 6, 2006 3:55 PM in response to: fbuono
Re: Dedicate physical network adapter to VM

Well!

This is perfect!!!

 

Thanks a lot for your great answer.

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