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n serial ports
n parallel ports
n Trusted Platform Module device
Configuring the Network Connection
Configure and implement Fusion virtual networking components on your virtual machine to
connect to other virtual machines in your networking environment.
Fusion supports only Ethernet-based networking, but provides several options for connecting to
networks.
n A virtual machine can use NAT to share the IP address of your host system.
n You can configure a virtual machine to bridge to a specific network interface on the host
system. Fusion supports IPv6 in bridged networking.
n You can create a VPN that includes only the virtual machines on your host system.
In Fusion, when you edit settings for a virtual network adapter, you can choose from several
types of network connections.
Table 8-2. Network Connection Options
Option Description
Share with my Mac If you want to connect to the Internet or other TCP/IP network using your Mac dial-
up networking connection and you are not able to give your virtual machine an IP
address on the external network, choosing this option is often the easiest way to
give the virtual machine access to that network. The virtual machine does not have
its own IP address on the external network. The virtual machine obtains a private IP
address from the VMware virtual DHCP server.
Bridged Networking items In the Bridged Networking list, you see various choices for bridging to one of the
network interfaces on your Mac, including wireless and Ethernet. Using one of these
options is often the easiest way to give your virtual machine access to a network.
With one of these bridged networking options, the virtual machine appears as an
additional computer on the same physical Ethernet network as your Mac. The virtual
machine can use any of the services available on the network to which it is bridged,
including file servers, printers, gateways, and so on. Likewise, any physical host or
other virtual machine configured with bridged networking can use resources of that
virtual machine.
Private to my Mac When you use this type of network connection, the virtual machine is connected to
your Mac’s operating system on a virtual private network, which normally is not
visible outside your Mac. Multiple virtual machines configured with host-only
networking on the same Mac are on the same network.
n Connect and Set Up the Network Adapter
You can connect the virtual network adapter for the virtual machine and set the type of
networking to use.
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