Yep, it's a hole. One that would make me choose another option (if there is ever one) instead of Parellels. There are many cases where you would want it. For example, if your at a hotel, you pay one daily rate (one mac address) for the host OS and all the guests to get to the internet. The way it is now, bridged, you would have to pay for each guest seperate.
For that matter, any internet connection where you're connected directly to the DSL modem, etc... you would want this.
Guest OS's are more secure in a nat'd hostonly setup rather than a bridged setup.
As it stands now, I have to shutdown the guest and bring it back up just to see the internet or other subnets in my network. A considerable pain and increased risk to guest systems since they now reside directly on a network somewhere.
You cannot use the sharing feature to turn this on, since you cannot share en0/en1 to vi2. Option is not there.
John P.
Last edited: Apr 18, 2006