I am pretty excited about my traning class of next week. Architecturing WPF Applications with Brian Noyes from IDesign! While I was setting up my Virtual Machine (Windows Server 2008), I wasn’t able to connect to the internet from my VPC at home. It used to work before at a different location…
My current VPC setting to connect to the internet is setup to use NAT (Shared Networking).
When I looked up my IP Configuration, I had the following result:
The default gateway had been assigned by my VPC and that was probably missing in my Network configuration.
So, basically, you just need to put this setting and everything will work again!
Update:
I found an interesting article about this:
Fix Virtual PC 2007 Shared Networking (NAT) Internet Not Working in Windows Server 2003, 2008 and Vista Guest OS
The problem is that Shared Networking configures the guest operating system to use the same DNS servers as are used by the physical computer. However, when actual DNS query resolving packets are been returned, it’s actually returned from the IP address of “192.168.131.254″, which is the virtual gateway used by Shared Networking (NAT).