Connecting Virtual machine and host Machine to the same network

Hi,
I have 2 virtual machine on the same host machine.
I want to be able to connect the 2 virtual machine to the host machine and
be able to ping each machine from any machine.
How can I achieve that!!!

My host machine is not connected to any network

 

All you need to do is attach each vm to the physical network card of the
host machine and make sure the IP settings are correct on all machines.

 

That's not quite right -- if the host NIC is not connected to anything this
will fail. You would need to install the loopback adapter and use that as
the common network adapter.

- Bob Comer

 

Even if the nic isn't attached to anything, it would fall back to an AIPPA
assignment in each case and they would all see each other, isn't that
correct?

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microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, Chris Hedlund

No, it isn't. In this case, networking would not be available. Has
nothing to do with IP addressing in this case.

--
Paul Adare
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend
the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

 

No, that's not correct.

- Bob Comer

 

NICs worked like that in the "old days". The OSs which will run VPC don't
work that way. If a NIC is not plugged into anything, it is "dead". This
solves the old problem of machines trying to use a NIC when the machine
(such as a laptop) is no longer connected to the LAN.