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Hi everyone I have a question and Its NOT a programming question( I could'nt find any forum for my question). Is it possible to create a network with vmware workstation or Vm virtualBox? I mean is running two or more instances of these programs and configurate them like a real network? Thanks

Rage

A quick google (ahem) seems to say : yes, we can[^].

GenJerDan

Heck, as far as that goes, I've set up a complete Windows network on one box using the free VMWare Player. :-D

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Richard A Dalton

Yes, you can set up a team of virtual machines and they'll work like a network. One little caveat, In the past I've seen some strange behaviour. E.g. I had a virtual machine serving the role of a web server. Numerous physical boxes on the network could see this virtual web server and use it. But the Host PC, the actual box that the virtual machine was running on couldn't see it, even though the Host PC could see the rest of the network and the rest of the network could see the host PC. Never cracked it. Eventually gave up because it wasn't that important. So, yes is the answer, but no promises that everything will go as planned. -Richard

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gavindon

short answer, yes. slightly longer answer, yes but make sure of your machine that you are building the vm's on.If you are doing it on one box you need plenty of resources. I run 5 vms on my laptop at once(all server 2008 os with sql, sharepoint, things of this nature) but I have the i7 processor with 8 gigs of ram.

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Joan M

Given the required resources you can do that without effort... a VM is almost a complete computer there are only special appliances that are still not working... thanks that networking usually works well... several days ago, tough I found a problem that appeared when I tried to send/receive large amount of data as it triggered a timeout...

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