BobAgi wrote:
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?
Yes, this is exactly what a VMware Host-Only (VMnet1 by default) does. It enables communication on the VMnet1 Subnet between the Guests themselves and to the Host but not beyond the Host. You can, if you want, isolate the Host from the Host-Only Virtual Network via the Virtual Network Editor and then only the Guests would be able to communicate with each other.
Seriously, you need to read Chapters 14 & 15 in the VMware Workstation 7 Users Guide as these two chapters cover the Networking aspects and will give you a much better understanding of the VMware Virtual Network Infrastructure.
