Internet on virutal PC using VMware

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aicul

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Hello,

I'm wondering if someone can help me with this one. I use virtual PC using VMware Fusion and would like to connect MS-Explorer in the virtual PC to the internet connected to the iMac.

I looked at the documentation and activated the Settings/removable devices/network as NAT. This makes the network icon at the bottom right become blue.

According to VMware help files this is sufficient. The catch, explorer cannot browse the web.

Possibly this is a problem with - strictly speaking - windows XP settings.

Can anyone forward any advice as I am - strictly speaking - only at ease with a Mac.

Thanks
 
Are you using that XP as a normal VMware virtual machine or as a Virtual PC import?

What IP do you get?
cmd
ipconfig /all

If there is no valid ip,
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
 
Hi Giaguara

Concerning whether I am using XP as a normal VMware virtual machine or as a Virtual PC import. I did not know this difference existed. I installed XP using the VMware quick installer and XP disks. Maybe this can help.

On the ipconfig, I had already checked and the IP seems valid it is 192.168.1.33 for Windows.
 
Have you installed the VMWare Tools? Without them, the graphics and the net are almost unusable? Good thing about Fusion is, that it comes tools for all supported OSs.

(If I were you, I'd download some Linux image from VMWare's web and try the net with Linux, but that is because I prefer Linux for net stuff to Windows)
 
Oh yes, the Tools...
(and 'oh. too tired today... Workstation, not Fusion.. can import the .vmc for vpx files)
 
I've used VMware Server, but not Fusion as I don't have an Intel Mac. I assume it gives you the option to set the virtual ethernet interface to Bridged mode. Have you tried setting it to this option? This way, the virtual interface gets an IP address from your actual router along with any DNS information instead of generating another private address that would segment it from your actual network.
 
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