[geeks] Some VMWare tech support...

[Jonathan Katz]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Lionel Peterson
<lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>  My money is on "bridged networking" for the two VMs - I suspect your VMs are sending all their packets  out over the hardware ethernet port, causing the host machine (Windows XP) firewall to interfere...
>
>  There are other options that would allow you to have the two machines communicate directly, without "touching" the actual port on the host machine (private?).

All the bridging stuff is turned off. vmnet2 on the host isn't
activated. These VMs don't know about the outside world.