Vista in a virtual PC networking joy

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OK so I've been messing about with more cardspace stuff and I though it was time to try it out with a Vista client.

 

Now right now I have the following setup;

 

My laptop; which runs the cardspace servers. I have a loopback adapter installed, which is configured to be 10.255.254.1

 

Then there's the XP client VM, which has a single virtual network adapter, which is bound to the loopback adapter and is configured to be 10.255.254.5

 

So I setup a Vista VM. Shared network is fine, as is directly binding to my wireless NIC. So it was time to get it onto the loopback adapter. I unbound IPv6 and file sharing and LLTD etc, leaving only IPv4. Close down the VM and switch the networking configuration to bind the loopback adapter to the VM. Start it up again and allocate 10.255.254.6 to the VM.

 

And nothing. It can't see 10.255.254.1, can't ping it. I can't ping the other way either, even after adding ICMP to the firewall rules.

 

Has anyone had this and got it to work?

 

Sorry I did something stupid *grin*

 

 

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