making my vm visible on my wireless network

[Herman J. Blume]

Hi, here is my situation. I have a wireless network with the airport extreme running 802.11n. I have an imac and a pc (with windows xp), and both are on the network. I also have a couple of Tivos on the wireless network, and I run tivo desktop off of the pc. All of this works fine.

I just installed parallels on the mac, creating a virtual machine with windows xp.

All of this hardware/software, except the pc, has been purchased very recently, so it is all pretty much the latest version(s). I have the virtual machine configured with bridged networking. My internet connections all work fine, including from within the virtual machine, which shows a single network connection for the LAN.

question(s): how do I get my virtual machine to join the wireless network? My VM does not seem to recognize the network or be visible on the network.

For example, I purchased pcmover to move my pc to the VM, and pcmover does not see my virtual machine, so I get stuck (of course, I tried transporter first, but it gave me a particular error message, which I researched here and elsewhere and found lots of others getting the same, with no solution being found, which is why I purchased pc mover in the first place)

I see related threads on this forum talking about messing with how the base station assigned IP addresses and so forth, but I am a step above novice so it's entirely possible I am missing something obvious or doing something ignorant.

Any help is appreciated!

 

[Herman J. Blume]

Any thoughts or help would be really appreciated

Thanks

 

[gegervision]

Make sure you're using Bridged Networking in Parallels and once OSX is connected via wireless the VM will pickup it's own IP address and be another client on your network. The VM will then then be visible on your network in whatever workgroup or domain your set it up for. Hope this helps.