On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:30, Coffin Michael C wrote: > I looked at VMWare and liked it, I liked it a lot - but it doesn't "really" > present a virtual machine with virtual hardware like mainframe VM does, at > least not 100%. Among the problems (which were significant for my intended > use of it) are the fact that there is NO support for PCMCIA devices, and a > NIC cannot be dedicated to a "virtual machine". Networking is handled by > having the hose own the NIC, run TCP/IP, and set up a private LAN between > the virtual machines and the host's TCP/IP.
It can also provide a transparent bridge mode, where your VMWare guest looks like it's on the same subnet as the host. This is usually good enough, although there's some MAC madness that can be a bit confusing. Adam
