In my earlier life (...) I had a laptop with VMWare Workstation 7 and a software development system. I used to start the guest up when developing/debugging the code since I needed TCP/IP communication with the guest software plus a serial channel too.
The guest was set to "host only" to protect it from the Internet.
This scheme worked well for some years.
Now the laptop has been P2V-ed so I can keep on developing using all of the tools I had already installed and which are no longer available even though the laptop is scrapped.
So the situation now is that I need to run two guests and both need to be isolated from the Internet but able to communicate between each other.
It does not matter if the host also sees them as long as they can get no further.
I will work in the development guest and talk to the test guest.
Could this be as easily accomplished as this:
- Set both guests to host only.
This would put them on some network of VMWare flavour (honestly, I have yet to understand these networks) and I figured that if they both are on this network they should be able to see each other and the host but nothing more.
Does this in fact work?
I cannot check it right away since both are currently running in Player windows and Player seems not to be able to dig into the networking details, so I have to clse them and start up WS7 to do that...
Regards,
Bo B.