Vista - IP Address for the virtual machine

I setup my virtual machines and installed Windows Server 2003 on one and
Windows XP Prof on the other one. Each guest machine boots and work normally.
I need to setup static IP address for the Server 2003 so I can run AD and
DNS. I am trying to setup virtual environment so I can study for my MCSE.
How can I do that and what about the XP, my host is Windows Vista Business.
Any feed back I really appreciate it.

"Jim Marasco" <Jim Marasco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:21458DAB-C1B3-4B60-B7F1-BF6784111448@xxxxxxPut the server in the Local Only virtual network and give it a static IP
in its own IP subnet. Run dcpromo and allow it to set up DNS for you.

When that is all done, put the XP vm in the same network. You can give it
a static IP in the same subnet as the server, or you can configure and
activate DHCP on the server an let the client get its network config from
DHCP. Remember that all AD clients (and the server itself) should use the
DC's LAN IP address for DNS.

The domain machines will not have access to the host, the physical
network or the Internet.

Thanks everyone for the replies regarding this. I am running all the machines
now without any probelm. I got two Windows Server 2003 and two XP machine in
AD. I installed and configured my DNS server first then I ran the AD (
Dcpromo). I got a question now and would like to keep all my questions under
this thread. How can I have multiple hard drives for each virtual machine.
For example the Server 2003 has a hard drive C: and I would like to to add
another hard drive to the same virtual machine so I can have another drive D
and so, is this possible?

"Jim Marasco" wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:39:15 -0700, Jim Marasco
<JimMarasco@xxxxxx> wrote:
Roughly just like you would with a real computer.
1. create a new VHD
2. shutdown the vm and attach the vhd to it
3. boot up windows, set up the new hard drive in computer management
and format

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

Steve,
Thanks alot for all the help you provided me, I am good to go now, I did
setup all my hard drives without any issues.
"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote: