Sharing a VM's modem to the Mac?

[unused_user_name]

Hello all..

Here is one I have not seen yet.

I have a USB cell phone that works as a modem in Windows, but does not work in Mac due to a lack of drivers. I have gotten this phone working with a USB connection to Parallels.

Now, I want to share this connection to my Mac. First I turned on internet connection sharing under XP, then I got stuck.

I tried bridged networking, but the Mac thinks all of it's interfaces are down, so it wouldn't get an IP from XP.

I then tried host-only networking but then Parallels turns on a DHCP server on the Mac side, and I can't find a way to disable it. I would like to be able to turn on/off the DHCP server on the Mac side so that I can use my VM as the server for the host-only adaptor.

I know I could probably killall dhcpd and start dhcp-client on the en2 inteterface... I'm looking for an official way of doing this. I dont want to have multiple pieces of software fighting over the configuration of my network stack.

Parallels developers: Can you add an option to disable the DHCP server on the Mac side under host-only networking?

 

[joem]

If all you need to do is disable the Parallels DHCP server, just move prl_dhcpd out of library/startupitems/parallels and reboot. That will peel one layer off the onion.

You can also kill a process from Activity Monitor.

Your real success story is getting the USB cell phone to work as a modem in a VM. That's cool.