Thursday, June 17, 2010

How to create a virtual LAN of 3 clients and 1 server in VMware # Part2: Configuring Virtual LAN

Here, we will be seeing how to configure a Virtual LAN for the VMs we created from the Part 1.

If you remember from Part 1, we selected the default network conifig NAT when prompted. Here I'll show how to make each VM talk to each other, and i'll be showing it via a new custom Network Adapter, not the pre-configured VMnet8 for NAT. This would help you understand more about VMware Workstation.

Below shows the options we selected while creating a VM. The Network Adapter part shows NAT, which is what we selected when configuring.