I have a user who recently purchased a Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot. He runs Vista Business on his laptop with VM Workstation 6 installed. He would like to be able to have internet access from the MiFi 2200 on the host computer and two virtual guest machines running XP Professional SP2. I was able to establish connectivity on all 3 by configuring the network adapter of one of the virtual guests to use a Bridged connection and the other to use a NAT connection. This worked fine until he tried to connect to a corporate network from one of the virtual guests using a VPN client. When he did that connectivity was lost on the guest. Can someone please advise what the optimal configuration should be for this scenario? My user needs to be able to have all three machines (1 host, 2 virtual guests) connected to the MiFi 2200, and the virtual guests need to be able to use VPN clients to connect to corporate networks. Thanks in advance!
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Thanks for the response hkunnana. I figured out that this issue was caused by one of the guest machines having the same IP as the host even though NAT was not turned on (I don't know what would cause this). I switched both vm's back to bridged, rebooted the host, brought up the guests, verified that all 3 had different IP's and then was able to successfully use VPN clients from the guests.
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by: hkunnanaPosted on 2009-11-04 at 10:16:28ID: 25742137
Don't use NATing for the other guests, use Bridged network. Having a VPN connection on the NATed link would mean all are connected to the corporate network, not the internet. While bridging, would permit each machine to have its own link to the internet.