Creating an Virtual network using Virtual pc

Hi,
I'm using windows server 2008 and I'm new to it. I would like to use the
windows server as a host and create a network of some client machines as
clients(Windows xp, Vista etc) and like to study about the group policy
etc... Can anyone tell me where I find the learning resources and demos.

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Thanks and Regards,
Vijay chandar

Hi,
I think I've put the question in the wrong way. My question is how to create
a network using virtual machines having a host machine as the host operating
system and clients as the virtual machines.

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Thanks and Regards,
Vijay chandar

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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>> I'm using windows server 2008 and I'm new to it. I would like to use the
>> windows server as a host and create a network of some client machines as
>> clients(Windows xp, Vista etc) and like to study about the group policy
>> etc... Can anyone tell me where I find the learning resources and demos.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yz7akb5
>
> This has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
>
>
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> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net

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>>>> I'm using windows server 2008 and I'm new to it. I would like to use
>>>> the windows server as a host and create a network of some client
>>>> machines as clients(Windows xp, Vista etc) and like to study about the
>>>> group policy etc... Can anyone tell me where I find the learning
>>>> resources and demos.
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yz7akb5
>>>
>>> This has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
>>
>> I think I've put the question in the wrong way. My question is how to
>> create a network using virtual machines having a host machine as the host
>> operating system and clients as the virtual machines.
>
> You create a network using virtual machine in *EXACTLY* the same way as
> you create a network using physical machines - there is no difference.
>
> This still has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
>
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> "Vijay" <> wrote in message
> news:...
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> [please don't top-post]
> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
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>
>>>> I'm using windows server 2008 and I'm new to it. I would like to use
>>>> the windows server as a host and create a network of some client
>>>> machines as clients(Windows xp, Vista etc) and like to study about the
>>>> group policy etc... Can anyone tell me where I find the learning
>>>> resources and demos.
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yz7akb5
>>>
>>> This has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
>>
>> I think I've put the question in the wrong way. My question is how to
>> create a network using virtual machines having a host machine as the host
>> operating system and clients as the virtual machines.
>
> You create a network using virtual machine in *EXACTLY* the same way as
> you create a network using physical machines - there is no difference.
>
> This still has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
>
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net

As Mark pointed out, this really is a networking problem, not a virtual
machine problem. What sort of virtualization are you running on this server?

As a general rule I would not recommend running the host as a domain
controller, whatever system you use.

In article <#sMa$>,
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> "Vijay" <> wrote in message
> news:...
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> >
> > I think I've put the question in the wrong way. My question is how to
> > create a network using virtual machines having a host machine as the host
> > operating system and clients as the virtual machines.
>
> You create a network using virtual machine in *EXACTLY* the same way as you
> create a network using physical machines - there is no difference.
>
> This still has nothing to do with Virtual PC...

Unless he uses VPC for clients
and is going to configure virtual adapters.


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Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:42:37 +0200, Poutnik <> wrote:

>In article <#sMa$>,
> says...
>>
>> "Vijay" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>
>> >
>> > I think I've put the question in the wrong way. My question is how to
>> > create a network using virtual machines having a host machine as the host
>> > operating system and clients as the virtual machines.
>>
>> You create a network using virtual machine in *EXACTLY* the same way as you
>> create a network using physical machines - there is no difference.
>>
>> This still has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
>
>Unless he uses VPC for clients
>and is going to configure virtual adapters.

But you configure a "virtual" NIC in a VM the same way you configure a
"real" NIC on a physical PC.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:42:19 +0530, "Vijay"
<> wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm using windows server 2008 and I'm new to it. I would like to use the
>windows server as a host and create a network of some client machines as
>clients(Windows xp, Vista etc) and like to study about the group policy
>etc... Can anyone tell me where I find the learning resources and demos.

What VM program are you using? Hyper-V, Virtual Server, etc?

What do you mean "create a network"? Do you mean a separate "virtual"
network isolated from the host's network? Or, are you just wanting to
set up a bunch of VMs on the existing network?

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/

In article <>, noreply.-
@-.essjae.com says...
>
> >>
> >> You create a network using virtual machine in *EXACTLY* the same way as you
> >> create a network using physical machines - there is no difference.
> >>
> >> This still has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
> >
> >Unless he uses VPC for clients
> >and is going to configure virtual adapters.
>
> But you configure a "virtual" NIC in a VM the same way you configure a
> "real" NIC on a physical PC.

But virtual NICs configuration has usually extra settings,
not present in real NIC ones, so OP could get confused.


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Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:00:34 +0200, Poutnik <> wrote:

>In article <>, noreply.-
>@-.essjae.com says...
>>
>> >>
>> >> You create a network using virtual machine in *EXACTLY* the same way as you
>> >> create a network using physical machines - there is no difference.
>> >>
>> >> This still has nothing to do with Virtual PC...
>> >
>> >Unless he uses VPC for clients
>> >and is going to configure virtual adapters.
>>
>> But you configure a "virtual" NIC in a VM the same way you configure a
>> "real" NIC on a physical PC.
>
>But virtual NICs configuration has usually extra settings,
>not present in real NIC ones, so OP could get confused.

There are *no* extra settings inside the virtual machines.

The default setting of VPC2007 is to use the host's own NIC for the
NIC in the new guest and with this the OP will have to do *nothing* in
the guest after installing a Windows operating system there. Windows
will discover the network adapter, install the proper driver and set
up the network connection to use DHCP (Automatic) address retrieval.

There is absolutely nothing special about this compared to the same
scenario in a physically separate PC.
Don't confuse him by saying otherwise. He will be good to go using the
defaults.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)