Configuring the Network
Connection
Configure and
implement
Fusion
virtual
networking components on your virtual machine to connect to other virtual
machines in your networking environment.
Fusion
supports
only Ethernet-based networking, but provides several options for connecting to
networks.
- A virtual machine can use NAT to share the IP address of your host system.
- You can configure a virtual machine to bridge to a specific network interface on the host system.Fusionsupports IPv6 in bridged networking.
- You can create a VPN that includes only the virtual machines on your host system.
In
Fusion
, when
you edit settings for a virtual network adapter, you can choose from several
types of network connections.
Option
| Description
|
|---|---|
Share with my Mac | If you want to connect to the Internet or other
TCP/IP network using your Mac dial-up networking connection and you are not
able to give your virtual machine an IP address on the external network,
choosing this option is often the easiest way to give the virtual machine
access to that network. The virtual machine does not have its own IP address on
the external network. The virtual machine obtains a private IP address from the
VMware virtual DHCP server.
|
Bridged Networking
items
| In the Bridged Networking list, you see various
choices for bridging to one of the network interfaces on your Mac, including
wireless and Ethernet. Using one of these options is often the easiest way to
give your virtual machine access to a network.
With one of these
bridged networking options, the virtual machine appears as an additional
computer on the same physical Ethernet network as your Mac. The virtual machine
can use any of the services available on the network to which it is bridged,
including file servers, printers, gateways, and so on. Likewise, any physical
host or other virtual machine configured with bridged networking can use
resources of that virtual machine.
|
Private to my Mac | When you use this type of network connection,
the virtual machine is connected to your Mac’s operating system on a virtual
private network, which normally is not visible outside your Mac. Multiple
virtual machines configured with host-only networking on the same Mac are on
the same network.
|