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Virtual PC Network Binding Breakdown

Wednesday, 01 February 2006 by Michel Roth

With Virtual PC, you can change the physical or virtual network adapter that a VM is bound to by clicking the Edit menu from the virtual PC VM�s window and selecting Settings. From there you click the Networking setting and select the appropriate adapter to bind the VM to in the Adapter drop down menu.

In theory, if you bind a VM�s virtual NIC to a different physical adapter on the host by selecting the new adapter and then clicking OK in the VM�s Settings dialog box, the VM should immediately bind to the newly selected adapter. However, with Virtual PC, this is rarely the case.

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