host to Gest? network connection?

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 >> Stay informed about: host to Gest? network connection? 

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:23:39 -0700, Michael Vilain
<vilain.RemoveThis@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

>In article <4BCAD491-68EA-47D2-8866-B17A0CC4FF1D.RemoveThis@microsoft.com>,
> sysco <sysco.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to use Virtual PC (MS 7.0) as a webserver. It's for for local / dev
>> purposes only. I am currentlly developing locally in OS X with but I need to
>> to run a windows specific executable within a script. I want to setup up a
>> webserver in the windows OS call from my OS X scripts.
>> Can I even do this with VPC?
>> I have installed windows 2000 and started virtual switch but I can't seem to
>> ping my guest OS.
>> thanks!
>
>If you want to run a web server on W2K on VPC, that might be doable.
>And you could access the server via a browser running on the W2K virtual
>machine.
>
>But having the MacOS X system "see" it through NAT might be a problem.
>From what I've seen on this group, VPC can "see" servers running on
>MacOS X but not the reverse.
>
>You may have to go with a cheap PC or switch to an Intel Macintosh with
>Parallels or Fusion.

No, this will work.
http://www.essjae.com/images/vpc7-sshots/w2kserver-iis.jpg

The OP has selected Virtual Switch, which is not NAT (Shared
Networking)

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.
 >> Stay informed about: host to Gest? network connection? 

Thanks for all the replies...
I'm using an G4 powerbook and was connecting to a wireless network. I had
read that wireless could cause an issue. Didn't realize that I needed have an
active NIC....I just thought I needed to disable it. Got it.

1. So I set VPC to the Airport adapter with a manually set IP.
2. I disconnected from the wireless but left airport on.
3. created a computer to computer network (from the airport dropdown...this
was guess.)

Works! pings from both machines.
I installed WAMP on the guest (windows 2000). And was pulling php pages from
the the the windows guest via safari..... great!

but errr...I restarted and I can't get machines to ping again!!
Any thoughts? How did I luck into it?


"Steve Jain" wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:23:39 -0700, Michael Vilain
> <vilain.TakeThisOut@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
>
> >In article <4BCAD491-68EA-47D2-8866-B17A0CC4FF1D.TakeThisOut@microsoft.com>,
> > sysco <sysco.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I want to use Virtual PC (MS 7.0) as a webserver. It's for for local / dev
> >> purposes only. I am currentlly developing locally in OS X with but I need to
> >> to run a windows specific executable within a script. I want to setup up a
> >> webserver in the windows OS call from my OS X scripts.
> >> Can I even do this with VPC?
> >> I have installed windows 2000 and started virtual switch but I can't seem to
> >> ping my guest OS.
> >> thanks!
> >
> >If you want to run a web server on W2K on VPC, that might be doable.
> >And you could access the server via a browser running on the W2K virtual
> >machine.
> >
> >But having the MacOS X system "see" it through NAT might be a problem.
> >From what I've seen on this group, VPC can "see" servers running on
> >MacOS X but not the reverse.
> >
> >You may have to go with a cheap PC or switch to an Intel Macintosh with
> >Parallels or Fusion.
>
> No, this will work.
> http://www.essjae.com/images/vpc7-sshots/w2kserver-iis.jpg
>
> The OP has selected Virtual Switch, which is not NAT (Shared
> Networking)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
> I do not work for Microsoft.
>
 >> Stay informed about: host to Gest? network connection? 

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:20:00 -0700, sysco
<sysco.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Thanks for all the replies...
>I'm using an G4 powerbook and was connecting to a wireless network. I had
>read that wireless could cause an issue. Didn't realize that I needed have an
>active NIC....I just thought I needed to disable it. Got it.
>
>1. So I set VPC to the Airport adapter with a manually set IP.
>2. I disconnected from the wireless but left airport on.
>3. created a computer to computer network (from the airport dropdown...this
>was guess.)
>
>Works! pings from both machines.
>I installed WAMP on the guest (windows 2000). And was pulling php pages from
>the the the windows guest via safari..... great!
>
>but errr...I restarted and I can't get machines to ping again!!
>Any thoughts? How did I luck into it?
>

I'm surprised it worked with the wireless at all. Your best bet is to
use the wired adapter and have it plugged into something, hub, switch,
loopback adapter, etc.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.
 >> Stay informed about: host to Gest? network connection?