I am having some trouble with the parallels network setup. My Mac is connected to the internet through another computer wirelessly (ad-hoc connection). This internet connection is then shared with the guest (Windows XP). I need to connect my XBox 360 to both the internet and windows in order to use XNA debugging software on the XBox, but the network configuration of Parallels is confusing me. I have setup internet sharing on my Mac from wireless to ethernet, with the ethernet cable plugged directly into the XBox. I then bridged the ethernet connection to Windows (Guest) in parallels. I am unsure on how parallels performs networking, but I though this would create a bus topology network between Xbox, Mac and Windows, with Mac sharing its wireless internet connection with the network. In the past I have been able to achieve this by connecting Windows directly to the internet via a USB modem and sharing the connection with XBox and Mac but with my current setup it doesn't seem to be working. Sorry if it isn't very clear. If you need anything clarifying or elaborating just ask. Thanks.
> Sorry if it isn't very clear. It is clear. -- Here is some theory about Parallels Shared Networking (may be you will find it useful): While using Shared Networking (and this is preffered type of networking), the network topology looks like vm (10.211.55.x) |-> prl_naptd (10.211.55.1) -> Internet (host IP-address) |-> mac_host (10.211.55.2) While working in shared networking, VM accesses internet through Parallels Networking Daemon (it is kind of firewall or internet connection sharing daemon) and have internal address 10.211.55.x. Parallels Shared Networking Daemon is visible to VM by IP-address 10.211.55.1 Mac OS Host is visible to VM by ip 10.211.55.2 the VM's ip-address can be obtained by calling "ipconfig" command inside Windows-guest -- I guess, that if just make type of networking for VM be "Shared Networking", you will be able to connect from the VM to XBox using XBox IP-address. If you need to connect from the XBox back to VM - special tuning is required (prl_naptd acts like firewall!).. -- > I have setup internet sharing on my Mac from wireless to ethernet, with the ethernet cable plugged directly into the XBox. I then bridged the ethernet connection to Windows (Guest) in parallels. Hm... I expect it should work. Could you please provide answers on 1) Whether XBox sees the Internet with this configuration? 2) Whether Windows VM sees the Internet with this? 3) Please post here the output of the command "ipconfig /all" from the Windows VM
Hey I just figured out a similar problem. I'm running Windows 7 on version 6.0 of parallels and couldn't connect my devices. I found that in the Mac (host) side of parallels under the devices menu bar theres a network menu. Select bridged network and whatever configuration you're using. As soon as the network was bridged, I got a normal 192.168.x.x ip address that successfully connected with the xbox. Try it out. all you've got to do is change the network setting to bridged.
