VMware Workstation NIC Mode Details

When Xiaobian first came into contact with system integration, because of limited resources around, you can only do some testing on the VMware virtual environment. Now that the latest VMware Workstation V8 has been released, this update not only streamlines the original installation files, maintains the original quality, but also supports 32-bit and 64-bit systems perfectly, with great improvements in functionality and ease of use. .

After the virtual machine installation is complete, VMware will virtualize two NICs on the host. In the network properties of windows2003, you can see more VMware Network adapter VMnet1 (host-only) and VMware Network adapter VMnet8 ( NAT), these two network cards are the bridge between the virtual machine and the host. We can imagine that a network card on the host is connected to the virtual machine.

host-only: mode is equivalent to NIC direct connection bridged: mode is equivalent to through hub NAT: equivalent to routing.

There are several NIC modes in VMware Workstation: 1. birdged: Bridge mode The virtual machine on VMware Workstation is like a standalone host on the network that can access any machine on the network and has its own Independent IP, even access to machines on other networks via gateway, route.

2. NAT: Address Translation Mode Virtual machines on VMware Workstation can share an IP with the host

3. host-only: Host mode Only Workstation on VMware Workstation can communicate with the host ( Equivalent to two machines connected by twisted pair)

4. custom: Custom mode

Xiaobian tried to use host-only and bridged, the following respectively: Br>

First, set the network to host-only in VMware Workstation 1. Set the IP address of the network card to 192.168.0.10 on the virtual machine linux system 2. Set the VMware Network adapter VMnet1 (host-only) in the host Windows2003 IP is 192.168.0.11 3. Restart windows2003 and linux, you can communicate

Second, set the network to bridged in VMware Workstation 1. Set the IP address of the network card to 192.168 on the virtual machine linux system. .0.10 2. Set the physical network card IP address to 192.168.0.11 in the host windows2003. 3. Restart windows2003 and linux, then you can communicate

In bridged mode, North Street also tested that other servers in the same network segment can also access VMware Workstation's Linux system, and Linux can also access other LAN servers.

Seeing this, I believe that you can get the VMware Workstation network.