Vista - Network

How can I set my VM and host OS to see each other like they were real pcs. I
want to connect the SQL Server 2008 in my VM from my Host OS.
Thanks

That is essentially the default setup. Check the settings of the vm. Is
the network adapter set to use the physical NIC in the host?

If that is set correctly, do an "ipconfig /all" from a command prompt on
both host and guest and compare the network configs.

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"Rafael Leivas Malheiros" <malheiros@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The first thing to bear in mind hear is that your virtual machine *are* real
machines, just as real as physical machines... The fact that they are made
of software instead of hardware is completely irrelevant to your question.

Secondly, the answer to this question, like almost all VPC questions, is
"how would I do this if my virtual machines were physical machines?".

So, if you had two physical machines one of which was running SQL Server,
how would you connect to it from the other?

You'd network them.

1) Launch the Virtual PC console.

2) Select, but don't start, the virtual machine in question.

3) Click the Settings button

4) In the left pane, select Networking

5) In the right pane, make sure that Adapter 1 is pointing at the host's NIC
and not Local only, Shared Networking or Not Connected.

6) Click OK

7) Start the virtual machine - if you change the network adapter in 5)
above, it will find it and use it.

8) Add the virtual machine into the same domain or workgroup as the host
machine.

9) Make sure that SQL Server is running, and that the firewalls on the host
and the guest are configured to allow SQL traffic between them, usually port
1433...


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