Vista - Re: vmware & dotnet development environment

Hello meown,

Why to share, just publish your site to virtualized box, and use virtualized
SQL from your host

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Michael Nemtsev [Microsoft MVP] :: blog: http://spaces.live.com/laflour
:: http://twitter.com/laflour

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" (c) Michelangelo


m> Hi,
m>
m> I want to use VMware to set up an ASP.NET development environment. My
m> host runs Windows XP and my Virtual Machine is running Win Server
m> 2003. The question is how can I get the 2 operating systems
m> communicating with each other?
m>
m> I would like to have Visual Studio installed on the host but my
m> website/database running on my VM. I would like to share files
m> between the operating systems by mapping a drive from the host e.g.
m> \\devserver\c$ . I would like to access the website running on the VM
m> on the host i.e. http://devserver/whatever.aspx .Also my VM needs
m> access to the internet through the connection on the host.
m>
m> I was using VMware server but I couldn't even share files between the
m> os's as it had no support for Shared Folders. Is VMware workstation a
m> better choice to achieve this or is it just dependent on how I
m> configure win XP and win 2003? Can anyone give me some pointers as to
m> what sort of configuration I need and where I can start?
m>
m> Thanks in advance.
m>

Thanks Michael but it doesn't help me much. I guess I'm just trying to
workout how to:

- Share internet access from my host (Win XP) to my VM (win server 2003)
- Configure network access between the 2 machines

I've been trying for a day now without any luck

"meown" <heisspost@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:TqOdncuz2u4VPJjUnZ2dnUVZ_tPinZ2d@xxxxxxThis is a question you should refer to the VMWare folks.

Try here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/

or in the VMWare communities:

http://www.vmware.com/communities/content/

I refer our students to these links all the time (we have an academic
subscription to VMWare products) and they seem to get the answers they need.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:02:53 +1100, meown wrote:
You are confusing two things. VMWare workstation has a feature that lets
you directly share folders via a special plug-in. This is a one-way
feature, you can only access the host from the VM, not the VM from the
host.

This has nothing to do with shared network folders, which function in all
versions of VMWare and are the same as if it were a stand-alone computer.

When you create a virtual machine, you choose what kind of networking you
want. Tell it you want a bridged network, this gives your server an IP
address on your hosts network so it can reach the internet and the host can
access it via it's IP Address (or if you have workgroup networking enabled
via SMB name)

If you're not familiar with how to configure windows networking, then
that's a topic that is well beyond a simple newsgroup post, and you should
do some reading up on that.

Hello meown,

Check the network settings of your vmWare. you need to specify the right
network adapter (physical or nat)
Im using vmWare last 3 years and I never had any issues with sharing and
providing internet access to vm box

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WBR,
Michael Nemtsev [Microsoft MVP] :: blog: http://spaces.live.com/laflour
:: http://twitter.com/laflour

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" (c) Michelangelo


m> Thanks Michael but it doesn't help me much. I guess I'm just trying
m> to workout how to:
m>
m> - Share internet access from my host (Win XP) to my VM (win server
m> 2003) - Configure network access between the 2 machines
m>
m> I've been trying for a day now without any luck
m>