How to connect my base machine with Virtual OS in VMWARE ?

[ankitbiz]

I have insstalled VMWARE Workstation in my WINXP and installed Virtual OS of WINXP as well as WIN SERVER 2003 Virtual OS in VMWARE Workstation.

after Installation of VMWARE it has created 2 network adapter, I have selected Host only option in networking setting.* *

Now I want to connect my base winxp machine with Virtual Windows server 2003 and

I want to transfer some file from base machine to virtual machine.

How can I do this?

[SpiderIce]

Try Edit>virtul network editor>host virtual adapters and add a new adapter to it and connect it to the correct virtual network

[AWo]

Welcome to the forums!

Can you use a larger font, please!!!

To connect the guest OS's wit hthe host OS you can use:

1. Standard network share via the virtual network connections

Just like you would connect physical machines over the network. You have the following options for example:

Bridged - the virtual guest justr behaves like any other host on the network. It needs its own network IP setup and you can connect to any machine this way, inlcuding the host.

Host-Only (VMnet1) - it's an isolated network where onle the guests and the host participate, but it works like a physical network.

2. VMware Workstations Shared Folder option

You can enable the Shared Folder option for each guest individualy. Enable it in the guest options, choose a folder of the host to share and install the VMware Tools inside the guest (you should always install the VMware Tools).

For more on exchanging data between the systems read: http://pubs.vmware.com/ws65_ace25/ws_user/transferfiles.10.1.html

AWo

VCP / VMware vEXPERT 2009