Vista - How to set up 3 NICs on VPC?

Hi folks
I have 1 nic on my host pc. i need to have 3 nics on vpc to set up a windows
cluster. Do you know if i can do that? i probably can use vmware but I
already installed vpc 2007.

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:14:10 -0800, Gene.
<Gene@xxxxxx> wrote:
If you want more than one NIC inside your virtual machines:
1) Shut down your virtual machines completely
2) In the VPC2007 console go to Settings for each machine
3) In Networking set the number of adapters you want (max 4)
4) For each adapter select either Local Only or your host NIC
depending on how you want them to be visible on the physical network.

With Local Only all virtual machines will be connected to one and the
same internal network, which is not visible outside your host PC. If
you select the host NIC then the virtual machines will all be
connected to the outside network (probably not a good idea).

However, if you just want several virtual machines to communicate with
each other using the network then you should stick to a single NIC in
each (the default) but set them as above to "Local Only" so that they
do not pass traffic out to the physical network.
You also need to set the NIC properties *inside* the virtual machines
to a fixed IP address (select one in the 192.168.x.x range). All of
these should be on the same network of course....

If you want to set up a virtual network with a server and a few other
PC:s then you could actually let the server have two NIC:s, one set to
the host PC NIC an dthe other Local Only. THen the server could act as
a router for the other PC:s on your virtual network out to the
Internet....

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Hi Bo

That's the problem: I can't add any more nics in 'settings for vpc'. It
shows 4 menues for 4 adapters but only 1 of them is active and accepts all
those settings you have mentioned.
My goal is to have next:
3vpc communicate with each other trough 'public' network. it could be that
they see only themselves and host pc.
2 vpc's have 1 extra network in which they communicate with each other only
by 'private' network.
The same 2 vpc should be able to see emulated san device which will have
network address from 'public' network. it probably will reside on host pc.
So far i am having problem with 3rd vpc since it shows wrong entries for
ipv4 (duplicate) and totally wrong in 'prefered' line.

if you have any ideas, please let me know. Btw, 2 other vpc's are using
'intel' adapter simulation.

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

"Gene." <Gene@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:01055E9E-5FDF-4B31-BF0D-A3EE14F7F289@xxxxxx
1) Make sure the VM in question is completely shut down, as Bo said.

2) Drop down the "Number of network adaptors" and select the number you
want...


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:51:02 -0800, Gene.
<Gene@xxxxxx> wrote:
Obviously you did not do one of steps 1 or 3 above...
Step 3 is simply setting the number of adapters to the count you want
in the top control on that page.....
Then that number of detailed config sections will be enabled.

How the adapters assign their IP addresses is entirely up to the
operating system rinning *inside* the virtual machine.
So if you run Local Only (which means you do not have a DHCP server
available) you have to set a fixed address *inside* the virtual
machine's operating system.
The VPC console just defines the available hardware in the virtual
machine.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:51:02 -0800, Gene.
<Gene@xxxxxx> wrote:
What do you mean by the last statement, intel adapter simulation?

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