While installing vmware server I'm asked
Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual machines? [yes]
what do they mean by this?
Thanks!
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Host-only networking creates a network that is completely contained within the host computer.
Sorry SO. Forgot to Google first.
ThomasGHenry
2009-02-14 23:29:57
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I actually find the NAT networking so much more useful in practice. If you have a VM that you need to update or grab the occasional package from the net. This is so handy I never create host only VMs anymore.
Tim Potter
2009-02-14 23:36:45
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Host-only networking is a way to restrict a VM's networking capability to talk to the outside world. It means the VM can only communicate with the host.
I've rarely found a need for it, since I almost always want the guest to be able to access the entire internet, not just the host machine.
However, the question being asked is: do you want to allow host-only networking? You still won't be forced to use it for all your VMs, so I would say yes. You will still be able to configure your VMs for full access.
paxdiablo
2009-02-14 23:37:38
Yeah, that kinda threw me off. I wanted the least restricted set up possible. I ultimately chose [no] and I think I got what I needed.
ThomasGHenry
2009-02-15 01:01:00
True, and when you do need fully-restricted networking, you can use LAN segments with teams. (AFAIK, host-only networking is like a big LAN segment made up of all running VMs on the same host. Teams allows you to specify which VMs are allowed in.)
Chris Jester-Young
2009-02-15 02:13:21
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I have a related question I've been looking for an answer to.
I'm testing Small Business Server 2008. It expects to be the DHCP server for the network and also expects an edge router that it can configure (or that I can configure manually). I'd like to set up a host-only network so that the SBS server and client machines are isolated from my regular network (just a small home LAN)--mostly so my real router can continue to serve DHCP to the other machines on my network but not interfere with SBS's DHCP service, but also I'd rather the other physical machines not be able to see the SBS lab on the network. The trouble is that I also need the server and client computers to be able to connect to the Internet - just not be visible to my other network computers or interfere with the DHCP service I have running on the home LAN (provided by my router).
I'm kind of stuck, as it appears I cannot do a host-only network that also connects to my Internet.
Any suggestions would be welcome!
You could probably get away with posting this as its own question. I don't know if you'll get much attention here and it's different enough not to be a duplicate of mine... at least in my opinion. You could link here as a "related question", but I'm not sure about the conventions for that.
ThomasGHenry
2009-02-20 19:35:02