Friday, January 9, 2009

Enabling Internet in a VPC Guest

Host Operating System: Windows Vista
Guest Operating System: Windows Server 2003


Shut down the Virtual Machine. 
Goto Settings > Network. And enable Shared Networking (NAT)
Start the Virtual Machine. 
Login into the Guest OS
Right Click on 'My Network Places' > Properties
Right Click on 'Local Area Connection' > Properties
Just enter the following IP in the section 
'192.168.131.254'

Courtesy: 
http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/fix-virtual-pc-2007-shared-networking-nat-internet-not-working-in-windows-server-2003-2008-and-vista-guest-os/

1 comment:

Amad said...

1. Make the adapter setting to NAT
2. Remove the IPs
3. Goto command prompt and do a ipconfig /flushdns.


The internet should start working IF the internet is working on the host mahcine.