User Manual

Managing Virtual Machines 93
Network Preferences
Parallels Workstation provides host-only network accessible only to a primary system and
virtual machines running on it. Methods of configuring different types of host-only network are
discussed in the
Creating Host-Only Network (page 132) topic.
The
Network tab is intended for specifying a range of IP addresses to be assigned to virtual
machines by Parallels DHCP server when configuring host-only network with dynamic IPs.
The
Scope start address and Scope end address values determine the first and the last IP
addresses. First address of this scope DHCP server usually assigns to itself. The second address
is usually given to the primary system. Others are assigned to virtual machines.
Scope start
address
and Scope end address should belong to the same subnet.
Subnet mask should be set in the
Scope mask field.
Note. Before changing DHCP scope settings make sure that there is no virtual machine running
in Host-only networking mode.
To check the networking mode of a running virtual machine:
1 Point the mouse cursor to the network adapter icon
in the status bar,
2 Check the
Mode line in the inscription.