Just curious, is there any way to port forwared from Host to guest? I use UVNC for remote support, I have to open up port 5500 on my router, and forward it to my "Bridged" virtual machine. I always use shared networking unless I am using UVNC. I know that the windows versions of VMware allow NAT port forwarding, and I was just curious if there is a way, or plans to add a feature like this? Thank you.
Haven't tried this, but if you used host-only networking for the guest, you ought to be able to use the Mac's internet connection sharing facility to share the Mac's internet connection with the Parallels host-guest interface), enable the Mac firewall, then issue an "ipfw" command to set up the port forwarding on the Mac side (or use something like "Flying Buttress" (formerly BrickWall) for a GUI interface to ipfw). The other thing I was going to try sometime was, now that Parallels supports multiple NICs per guest, set up a small guest with two NICs (one bridged, one host-only) running something like IPCOP to act as a firewall/router for any other (host-only) guests. However, provided you trust the firewall on your router, why not used bridged networking all the time? (or is it really just curiosity).
Here is why I don't use bridged all of the time: 1: I am using a MacBook Pro, so I am always moving from network to network when I am away from my desk, and I need my VM to always be on the same IP. If I never had to leave my desk, I would always use bridged. I am very confident in my router security. 2: One of the programs I use is an old Win95 program that does not recocnize \\.psf mapped drives, but works fine with samba, (Windows shares) 3: When using UVNC, (http://www.uvnc.com/), I have my router set to port forward port 5500 to the VM. But I have to switch from shared to bridged when I get back to my desk. I use UVNC to preform remote support for clients. I completely forgot about host-networking, which I used to use before shared. I might try your advice to see if I could route traffic to my VM. Thank you.
