Connecting Virtual Machines to Virtual Networks

In Parallels Server Bare Metal, 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 Bare Metal 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.