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Controlling Devices Attached to VMware Player

VMware Player allows your virtual machine to access some of the devices attached to your host computer, such as the floppy disk drive, CD or DVD drive and the Ethernet adapter. Depending on what preferences you set (see Device Connection Interface Preferences), these devices may appear in the toolbar or the devices may be listed under a Devices menu.

To connect or disconnect a device shown on the toolbar, click the button for that device. If a device is connected, the button is depressed (in the "down" position). If a device is not currently connected, its corresponding button is not depressed.

To connect or disconnect a device from the Devices menu, select the device you want to connect or disconnect from the cascading menu. If a device is currently connected, a check-mark appears next to its name in the Devices menu.

Configuring a Network Connection

If you have an ethernet device connected to your virtual machine, you may choose the type of networking your virtual machine uses. If you are controlling device connection using the Devices menu, use the cascading menu in Devices > Ethernet to configure the virtual machine's network connection. If you are controlling device connection using buttons on the toolbar, click the arrow next to the Ethernet button to configure the virtual machine's network connection.

You may choose one of the following network connection options:

• Bridged — If the host computer is on an Ethernet network, bridged networking is often the easiest way to give your virtual machine access to that network. With bridged networking, the virtual machine appears as an additional computer on the same physical Ethernet network as the host. A virtual machine with bridged networking may transparently use any of the services available on the network to which it is bridged, including file servers, printers, gateways and so on. Likewise, any physical host or other virtual machine configured with bridged networking can use resources of that virtual machine.
• NAT (Network Address Translation) — If you want to connect to the Internet or other TCP/IP network using the host computer's dial-up networking connection and you are not able to give your virtual machine an IP address on the external network, this is often the easiest way to give the virtual machine access to that network. The virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network. Instead, a separate private network is set up on the host computer. The virtual machine obtains an address on that network from the VMware virtual DHCP server.
• Host-only — When you use this type of network connection, the virtual machine is connected to the host operating system on a virtual private network, which normally is not visible outside the host. Multiple virtual machines configured with host-only networking on the same host are on the same network.

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