Kinos post a comment:

Jan 14,  · Jan 13th, at PM. No your VM host system does not need a static (fixed) IP address, or any IP address for that matter. Think about it this way. The bridged interface connects below the host operating system. The VM connects to a virtual switch in the host OS the same level as the host OS. The host network adapter enables the virtual machine to connect to the LAN that the host system uses. Bridged networking works with both wired and wireless host network adapters. Bridged networking configures the virtual machine as a unique identity on the network, separate from and unrelated to the host system. The virtual machine is a full participant in the network. It .

Tesar post a comment:

Jun 12,  · The problem is that, since I think, it is not possible to add additional services to a network card in Windows Trying to do it and you receive this: As VMware Workstation wants to install an additional service to allow the physical NIC to be used in VMware Virtual Networks, this functionality is currently broken.

Duktilar post a comment:

Network types in VMware Workstation. There are three types of virtual networks: Bridged, Host-Only, and NAT, which are already predefined since. replace.me › blog › it-ops › vm-workstation-advanced-networking. Method 4: Removing all unnecessary host network adapters. If you're using VMware Workstation Player (the free version) and the method above wasn.