Connecting Virtual Machines to Virtual Networks
In Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition, you can connect your virtual machines to Virtual Networks of the following types:
- Bridged networks. This type of Virtual Networks allows the virtual machine to use one of the physical server's network adapters, which makes it appear as a separate computer on the network the corresponding adapter belongs to.
- Shared networks. This type of Virtual Networks allows the virtual machine to use the current network connections of your Parallels server.
- Host-only networks. This type of Virtual Networks allows the virtual machine to access only the Parallels server and the virtual machines joined to this network.
To connect your virtual machines to any of these networks, use the pctl set command. For example, the following session shows you how to connect the net0 adapter of the MyVM virtual machine to the Bridged Virtual Network (this is one of the default Virtual Networks created on the Parallels server during the Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition installation).
Before connecting the MyVM virtual machine to the Bridged Virtual Network, you may wish to check the network adapter associated with this Virtual Network. You can do it, for example, using the following command:
# prlsrvctl net list
Network ID Type Bound To
Shared shared vnic0
Host-Only host-only vnic1
Bridged bridged eth0
vznetwork1 host-only vnic2
From the command output, you can see that the Bridged Virtual Network is attached to the eth0 physical adapter on the Parallels server. It means that, after connecting the MyVM virtual machine to the Bridged Virtual Network, the virtual machine will be able to access all the computers on the network where the eth0 adapter is connected.
Now you can run the following command to join the net0 adapter of the MyVM virtual machine to the Bridged Virtual Network:
# pctl set MyVM --device-set net0 --network Bridged
Creating net0 (+) network=Bridged mac=001C422D7493
The VM has been successfully configured.
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