First post. Thank you for having me on these boards.
I am a total beginner with virtual machines. I need to have both W7 x64 and XP Professional on the same laptop. On a previous machine I set up a dual boot to achieve this and it worked fine.
On a new laptop I thought I would try to set up a virtual XP machine.
I have VMwarePlayer installed and I can connect to the internet. I think I can do it from the virtual machine but I am not sure about this - I may be connecting from the host. I can use both OS's and install files into each. But, I cannot connect to my LAN - 3 PCs and several laptops. Ordinarily, the LAN works pretty well. When I follow the usual XP dialogues for LAN connection these just take me round in circles.
The IP address of my virtual machine is 192.168.147.128 - an odd address to me. My router would not allow me to use it either - insisting on 192.168.0.XXX.
The second question is about file sharing between the virtual machine and the host. I understand that I will not be able to install W7 files on the XP virtual machine, but can other files e.g. jpg, bmp files be shared?
If anyone is kind enough to reply, please keep it as simple as possible. Thanks!
John