Teaming Multiple Virtual PCs

Saturday, 12 February 2005 by Michel Roth

VMware's Workstation 5 Beta is able to team mutiple Virtual Machines so they can easily communicatie with each other. It seems to be a problem to get the same results with Microsoft Virtual PC. It can be done though.

"I'm a big fan of using multple Microsoft Virtual PC images, especially for demos and development. My current machine has a second hard disk that is dedicated to images that I use for such work. One of the problems I've run into in the past is getting multiple Virtual PC instances to talk nicely together over a network - regardless of whether the host machine is connected or not. On frequent occasions I've turned up to do demos only to find out that Virtual PC #1 cannot see Virtual PC #2 on the network - even though they are on the same machine!"

Read on here.