Bridge Network On Mac For Parallels

My MBP is connected to a wireless network only, running WPA2. I’m running VMWare Fusion 3.0.2 (232708) on OS X 10.6.2 (Although this occurred on VMF v1 and v2 as well as OS X 10.5). The VM is Windows 7 Ultimate (although this occurred with Win XP also). I am new to Apple and my task is to install VMs on a Mac server. I am trying to install 4 VMs and I want them to have separate IPs and be visible on the network as separate machines.

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I am new to Apple and my task is to install VMs on a Mac server.

I am trying to install 4 VMs and I want them to have separate IPs and be visible on the network as separate machines. What are my options?

My research shows me that I can use a bridged network, but I have to select an adapter.

I have only two network adapters, does that mean I can only have 2 VMs? And when I configure the 2 VMS, will my actual server have internet connection?

Or does it use the Mac's address?

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When you select a network adapter, that means that the VM should expose itself to that network adapter; multiple VMs can expose themselves to the same adapter.

You should choose the adapter your computer is most often hooked up to or (if both are hooked up) whichever one has the network resources you want to talk to.

You can also select 'Shared Network' in Parallels Desktop 5/6, which effectively bridges with all host network adapters.

Hello,

I'm having a problem connecting to the Internet when the guest OS uses bridged network. Here is my environment.

Mac OS X: 10.6.5

VMware Fusion: 3.1.2

Guest OS: Windows 7 Ultimate

The reason I want bridged network to work is that I want to be able to Remote Desktop into the guest Windows 7.

What's strange about the issue is that when I change the network mode to NAT, I can connect to the Internet. But when I change it to bridged network, the network icon that shows at the lower right corner on Windows 7 has exclamation mark indicating that it can't get out to the Internet.

Here are the things I tried.

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• I tried bridged network on another Mac, and it works perfectly fine. So this issue is specific to the particular Mac.
• I checked firewall on the host Mac OS, and it's turned off.
• Guest OS is able to grab IP address from the DHCP server on my router.
• Hard coding the IP address didn't solve the problem.
• I deleted the network adapter device from the device manager and reinstalled it, but no luck.
• ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew didn't do anything.
• I tried port forwarding by modifying nat.conf. I was able to telnet into 3389, but strangely I couldn't get into Remote Desktop from RDC.
• Just for the heck of it, I hard coded the host OS IP address, but it didn't make any difference.

Can anyone please help me out on this issue?

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Thank you!