Vista - XP and Virtual Server

I am using windows XP as the host, and I have installed windows 2003 server
as a guest OS.

The xp host is in a domain on my company LAN.

I want my XP host to be in a virtual network with my windows 2003 server. I
also want the guest server to be not available on my company LAN. Is that
the default of installing Virtual server, or do I need to configure. I tried
created a share on the server, but I could not access it from the XP host.



Thanks in advance..Ed

"Ed" <abcde@xxxxxx> wrote in message
newsDB6071D-F27A-4450-9076-94832BBD08DB@xxxxxxYes, the default setting will put the guest in the same network as the
host.

You need to be a bit careful if your host is a domain member. You need
to keep your virtual machines hidden from the domain, and it is hard to do
that if you want to access the virtual machine from the host.

I would put the server in a virtual network with no connection to the
host OS at all. If you want a client for the virtual server, install a
client OS in a vm on the same network.

If you need access to the physical LAN and/or the Internet from your
virtual network, the safest method is to run a NAT router in another vm. The
machines on the virtual network can access the physical LAN through NAT, but
your virtual network is hidden from the LAN machines because they are on the
public side of the NAT router.

You can then run the vms as a private LAN. You can even run your own DNS
and DHCP server, or Active Directory.

You could also setup a loopback adapter on the host machine and attach the
VM to the loopback adapter when you configure it. You'll need to then setup
the loopback adapter with an IP address that isn't used on your real LAN.
This would enable your host to share folders with the Guest and vise versa.

"Ed" <abcde@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Tim Walsh" <tmwalsh@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#QTCLo8HJHA.2408@xxxxxxYou could, but it is not much good really unless all you want is host to
guest networking. If the host is XP, your only option for connection sharing
is ICS, and a server OS in the vm does not work well with ICS.