davidmcgill

Yes, thank you all for your assistance - I tried the bridged yesterday, and it picked up the DHCP address from the host servers' network - and that solution seems to be the best one at this point. For the other posts about adding more RAM and using ESX - I would do that, but this is for my office, testing out a solution, and you would think that as "tight" as they are, you'd get diamonds from coal and we'd be able to spend some money... In the short term, I am using crappy workstations with 4gb each. Working on getting ones with 8 or 16gb, but you know how hard it is to order stuff in an office... Maybe I can do ESX down the road. Again, thanks for all your suggestions. Dave

I started out using VMware Workstation 7.x on one host and everything was working great - created a virtual Windows 2008 DC, Exchange 2007 server, and various other servers. However, this test environment maxed out the RAM of my single VMware Workstation. Now I need to split the VM's between two VMware Workstations. I built two Windows 7 hosts, loaded VMware Workstation on both, and can't figure out how to connect vmwarelab1 host's VM's (192.168.142.x) to vmwarelab2 host's VM's. I know I need to somehow route between the two host PC's networks, but I am not sure how to accomplish this. I've seen some "linux floppy based routers" out there, but I don't know how to use those. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.