Hi, I just bought my first mac (the 2011 air) and want to learn some linux. I would like to do the following:
--- setup 2 vm's one as a server and one as a client and have the machines use static ip addresses so that I can learn networking between them.
My question is...can I create a network using fusion where I can have 2 vm's on the same network using static ip address, but still have access to the "outside world" pretty much meaing the internet? I tried virtualbox and using both bridge and nat the 2 linux vm's could ping outside but could not ping eachother. I tried another (was it called "host only"?) and the machines could then ping eachother without dhcp addresses but I had no connectivity outside (so I could not use yum to get updates etc).
So basically is there a way to setup fusion so I can setup 2 linux vm'a with static ip address, have them ping eachother, and have them access the internet? I was able to do this by default using kvm on a linux laptop that I had, but that laptop died and I decided to go the mac route.
I guess if not I could try linux in bootcamp and then run kvm, but I really don't want to mess up my macbook air especially since linux is not officialy supported in boot camp. I also wonder if any of the above would be made more complicated (if it can be done) by the fact that the macbook air only has wireless ethernet.
Thanks for listening, really appreciate some feedback, before I download and install fusion.
