<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, I am confused about setting up a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro. I want the virtual XP client to appear as a full-fledged machine in our domain. This means that I need to set it up with Bridged Ethernet.<DIV>The confusion is that I have two networking ports: built-in ethernet and Airport with their MAC addresses. Paralels seems to create two more ports: Host-Guest and NAT with their MAC addresses, then there appears a Bridged MAC address. I am lost. How do these network ports all talk? Do I have too many?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Should I use my two real network ports (built-in ethernet and Airport) for my two computers: one for the Mac and the other for the virtual XP? That would seem simpler, and I could understand this.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for any help</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,</DIV><DIV>Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT</DIV><DIV>617-253-8625 <A href="mailto:fjk@mit.edu">fjk@mit.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>