[Macpartners] Parallels, XP and bridged network

[Felix Kreisel]

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.
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?

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.

Thanks for any help


Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT
617-253-8625   fjk at mit.edu



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