Running two guests at the same time in WS7

[BobAgi]

I have always only used a single guest running at the same time with VMWaer WS 7. But now I need to have two running at the same time.

It seems like they can do this as witnessed by my ability to start both, but how can I interact with both?

In fact I also want them to be on the same network but not connected to my host network (and the Internet).

The tabbed style of display makes it very difficult, I would much more prefer the VMWare Player style with separate windows.

Is this possible also with Workstation?

BTW, long tiome ago when I used Microsoft VPC this way was the only available, each guest in a separate window and the control part in a smaller window.

Probably there is a simple solution, but how?

Is the network system achievable too? (The two guests talk to each other but nopt to the host)?

[BobAgi]

Do you mean that these commands are to be executed inside the newly created guest to clean up the devices?

If so can a batch file be used (run as admin I assume)?

Like this:

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

start devmgmt.msc

[WoodyZ]

Do you mean that these commands are to be executed inside the newly created guest to clean up the devices?

P2V created Virtual Machines, yes.

If so can a batch file be used (run as admin I assume)?

Like this:

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

start devmgmt.msc

Yes.  Also look at the following for additional information. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539

Note that link is for Windows XP however general information is relevant to Windows 7 too.