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Sharing VPN between original Win and virtual machines

sakdnf — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:23:37 GMT

Hello

I am using VPN internet on base machine (Windows 10) and two virtual machines (Windows 8.1) are installed on base Windows too. But the virtual machines are not get VPN from base Windows. How can I share VPN between base Windows and virtual Windows? I hope to explain the issue obviously.

Regards, M.

Re: Sharing VPN between original Win and virtual machines

ender_ — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 20:41:18 GMT

The only way is to set the VM to use NAT instead of bridged networking.

Re: Sharing VPN between original Win and virtual machines

sakdnf — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:31:29 GMT

ender

I did it and click OK, but when I came back to Virtual Network Editor, I saw it was not done and it is set to Bridge. Do I must do something more?

Re: Sharing VPN between original Win and virtual machines

ender_ — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:56:57 GMT

You need to set the Network Adapter in VM Settings to NAT – no need to do anything in Virtual Network Editor.

Re: Sharing VPN between original Win and virtual machines

RDPetruska — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:00:10 GMT

Many VPNs cannot do this anyway - the entire point of a VPN is funneling all network traffic from a network adapter through an encrypted tunnel... and many VPNs will disconnect any other networks connecting to the PC while they are active.

Re: Sharing VPN between original Win and virtual machines

ender_ — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:01:36 GMT

When a VM is set to NAT mode, the traffic from VM will look just like traffic from any random Windows program (VMWare itself acts as a router).