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I have a developer computer with two physical network interfaces (NIC A and NIC B). I have VMWare workstation and several virtual machines in VMNet8 (NAT). I would like to connect my notebook to my computer in that way that my notebook is in the same network/subnet as my virtual machines, but also connected to the internet. So:
Internet -- (NIC A) -- COMPUTER ---- VMNet8 -------- VM1
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+------------- VM2
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+-- (NIC B) -- NOTEBOOK
How can I achieve that? It is important to have the notebook in the same subnet as the vm-s, and the internet should be accessable from the notebook. I use Windows 8 professional (64bit, all updates) and VMWare Workstation 10 (newest).
I have been trying bridging (Windows built-in, bridge VMNet8 and NIC B) since the middle of August (and still using that), but it is not working: DNS resolve is slow and sometimes doesn't finish. The problem stands even if there is no vm running, only deleting the bridge solves the DNS problem.
Why don't you use bridge instead of NAT ? – harrymc – 2013-09-19T05:45:50.803
I want the computers in the same subnet (network). – lajos.cseppento – 2013-09-19T08:48:45.310
If bridged, they will all be in your local network. – harrymc – 2013-09-19T09:40:41.123
But with windows 8 network bridge it dns resolve is verrry slow any buggy (even from the host with no vm running!) – lajos.cseppento – 2013-09-19T12:54:39.503
That's not normal - setting a VM to bridged should not affect the host, and certainly not if the VM is not running. It might be that this is your real problem, rather than asking for a such a strange workaround. But you will have to totally rewrite your question and supply us with more information. As a first step : Are you running the latest version of Workstation? – harrymc – 2013-09-19T13:03:38.760