Hello guys,
this is my first virtualization project in vmware player. I decided to "virtualize" two machines with windows XP OS and put it on one new machine with windows 7 as host.
Machines A and B had a network connection between them and this connection was used by some applications installed on them. In addition to these connections, both machines had their own network connection to other networks.
For example machine A had two LAN connections: IP address 10.0.0.15 and 192.168.0.1, and machine B had IP address 172.20.0.15 and 192168.0.2. IP addresses 192.168.xxx.xxx. were used between these two machines.
Since these machines will be virtualized, I need one new host machine with only two LAN interfaces (third network is between virtual machines i.e. internal network).
So I used standalone converter and successfully made two VMs and I set up internal network between them. I have test the communication between them and it is OK
So, right now, I need to set up network connection on virtual machine A to network 10.0.0.xxx and network connection on virtual machine B to network 172.20.0.xxx.
Should I set up virtual network adapters as NAT or Bridged? I have tried the following:
- I have set up first LAN interface of host machine to IP address of machine A (10.0.0.15), and second to 172.20.0.15
- In properties of virtual machine A I have set up virtual network adapter to Bridged and I have chosen physical network card (configure adapter) with address 10.0.0.15
- In properties of virtual machine B I have set up virtual network adapter to Bridged and I have chosen physical network card with address 172.20.0.15
The result is that I have a limited connectivity and cannot ping network 10.0.0.xxx from VMA and I also cannot ping network 172.20.0.xxx from VMB
If I chose NAT, then how can I be sure that VMA cannot access network 172.20.0.xxx? This should not be the case.
Basically I want that my virtual network adapter from VMA can only be bridged to host network card with IP address 10.0.0.15 and VMB to be bridged to 172.20.0.15.
Attached, please find my block diagram that.
Thank you very much for your help.
