networking two virtual machines, on the same host

[jb60606]

is it possible to network 2x virtual machines (on the same box; a Mac Pro) using any of the available VM suites out there (vmware or parallels, etc)?

I'm developing/QAing client/server apps, and it would suck if i have to purchase more machines when I have 8x cores and 16GB of RAM available at my disposal on my MP.

thanks in advance

 

[larkost]

Yes it is possible, and should "just work". Of course this means that you would be working within Windows (or Linux, BSD, etc) inside the VMs, and not MacOS.

 

[jb60606]

Yeah, I'm a dunce. I simply switched the vmware network adapter settings from NAT to bridged in all VMs, after reading this document. My XP/Solaris10/SUSE9 Professional/SUSE9 Server VMs see each other now. For some reason, all but XP have name resolution. I had to create a "host" file for it.

Thanks