Vista - How Do I Setup VMs on Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Win2k8?

Hello,

I have a server that I use it to test software. This server is a Windows
2008 server with Virtual Server 2005 R2 on it. It has a dozen virtual
servers running on an isolated virtual segment. To connect the virtual
servers to the Internet, it uses a physical network interface card. The
address space for the virtual servers must not be the same as any others in
my company. Other networks within the company should not access the virtual
network address space either. Because of a little issue, I need to have the
virtual servers connect to the Internet that the regular networks do so that
they can access preconfigured vendor update servers. I still have to have
all address spaces of all networks separated. What should I do to acheive
this?

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Thank you for your help!
JYC

The situation doesn't really change because you are using virtual
machines and virtual networks. You do it just the same way as you would to
isolate a test LAN segment from the rest of the network.

The simplest way to do it is to put the test LAN behind a NAT router.
The test machines can then contact the machines on the physical LAN and
thence to the Internet. The machines on the physical LAN are unaware of the
test machines because NAT is a one-way address translation system.

You can run the NAT router on the host or in a vm. To run it on the host
you will need to run your vms on a vitual network linked to a loopback
adapter in the host. If you run the router in a vm, you configure one NIC in
the virtual network and the other linked to the physical NIC in the host
machine.

If you want greater control over what does or does not go across the
link you can run a firewall like ISA server instead of NAT.

"Mr. JYC" <MrJYC@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you Bill.

JYC


"Bill Grant" wrote: