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Thank you both for your explanations.
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My host Win2003 host machine has a 100meg NIC. &nbsp;I have a WinXP virtual server running on it  this virtual machine shares the same 100meg NIC as its host.<br />
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Now, does the data travel between them through the NIC (i.e. at 100meg) or does it travel internally, i.e. through software. &nbsp;If the latter, at what speed does this happen? &nbsp;Or does it dpepend on speed of PC?<br />
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Thanks.<br />
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P.S. &nbsp;I know that having the host and the guest OS sharing the same NIC is not good for security, this is not an issue for me as it is only a home network
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My host Win2003 host machine has a 100meg NIC.  I have a WinXP virtual server running on it  this virtual machine shares the same 100meg NIC as its host.

Now, does the data travel between them through the NIC (i.e. at 100meg) or does it travel internally, i.e. through software.  If the latter, at what speed does this happen?  Or does it dpepend on speed of PC?

Thanks.


P.S.  I know that having the host and the guest OS sharing the same NIC is not good for security, this is not an issue for me as it is only a home network

What bandwidth speed does Virtual Server 2005 run between host and guest?

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.