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sysco - 18 Oct 2007 04:37 GMT

I want to use Virtual PC (MS 7.0) as a webserver. It's for for local / dev
purposes only. I am currentlly developing locally in OS X with but I need to
to run a windows specific executable within a script. I want to setup up a
webserver in the windows OS call from my OS X scripts.
Can I even do this with VPC?
I have installed windows 2000 and started virtual switch but I can't seem to
ping my guest OS.
thanks!

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Steve Jain - 18 Oct 2007 05:02 GMT

>I want to use Virtual PC (MS 7.0) as a webserver. It's for for local / dev
>purposes only. I am currentlly developing locally in OS X with but I need to
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>ping my guest OS.
>thanks!

The firewall on OS X and/or Windows can prevent ping from working. Is
Windows getting a correct IP address?

Is the NIC that Virtual Switch is using plugged in and active? If
not, that's the issue.

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Michael Vilain - 18 Oct 2007 05:23 GMT

> I want to use Virtual PC (MS 7.0) as a webserver. It's for for local / dev
> purposes only. I am currentlly developing locally in OS X with but I need to
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> ping my guest OS.
> thanks!

If you want to run a web server on W2K on VPC, that might be doable.
And you could access the server via a browser running on the W2K virtual
machine.

But having the MacOS X system "see" it through NAT might be a problem.
From what I've seen on this group, VPC can "see" servers running on
MacOS X but not the reverse.

You may have to go with a cheap PC or switch to an Intel Macintosh with
Parallels or Fusion.

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Steve Jain - 18 Oct 2007 06:16 GMT

>> I want to use Virtual PC (MS 7.0) as a webserver. It's for for local / dev
>> purposes only. I am currentlly developing locally in OS X with but I need to
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
>You may have to go with a cheap PC or switch to an Intel Macintosh with
>Parallels or Fusion.

No, this will work.
http://www.essjae.com/images/vpc7-sshots/w2kserver-iis.jpg

The OP has selected Virtual Switch, which is not NAT (Shared
Networking)

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sysco - 20 Oct 2007 05:20 GMT

Thanks for all the replies...
I'm using an G4 powerbook and was connecting to a wireless network. I had
read that wireless could cause an issue. Didn't realize that I needed have an
active NIC....I just thought I needed to disable it. Got it.

1. So I set VPC to the Airport adapter with a manually set IP.
2. I disconnected from the wireless but left airport on.
3. created a computer to computer network (from the airport dropdown...this
was guess.)

Works! pings from both machines.
I installed WAMP on the guest (windows 2000). And was pulling php pages from
the the the windows guest via safari..... great!

but errr...I restarted and I can't get machines to ping again!!
Any thoughts? How did I luck into it?

> >> I want to use Virtual PC (MS 7.0) as a webserver. It's for for local / dev
> >> purposes only. I am currentlly developing locally in OS X with but I need to
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
> The OP has selected Virtual Switch, which is not NAT (Shared
> Networking)

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Steve Jain - 20 Oct 2007 20:20 GMT

>Thanks for all the replies...
>I'm using an G4 powerbook and was connecting to a wireless network. I had
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>but errr...I restarted and I can't get machines to ping again!!
>Any thoughts? How did I luck into it?

I'm surprised it worked with the wireless at all. Your best bet is to
use the wired adapter and have it plugged into something, hub, switch,
loopback adapter, etc.

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