Hello!
I am running the free VMware server on Windows XP Professional perfectly with no problems.
I am using NAT, and the virtual adaptor on my host has an IP of 192.168.76.1/24.
When my virtual machines boot up, they acquire an IP through DHCP just fine. Now my question is, how can I find out what IP they have acquired. I thought I could look at the arp table, can I?
Another thing I noticed is that for most part, a guest always seems to acquire the same IP every time.
What I generally do is the use the http://localhost:8222 to start up the VMs, and then access it through SSH or something. In other words, I don't want to fire up the VMware server console just to check what IP the guest has acquired. I run nmap on my Windows XP on the 192.168.76.0/24 network to find out what IP which guest has acquired.
Either way, how I can find it out without using VMware server console and actually logging into the machine?