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can “virtually” network them. Don’t just limit yourself to thinking, “Oh, can I

get a VM to connect to the Internet?” Well, sure you can, but hypervisors do

so much more. Every hypervisor has the capability to connect each of its

virtual machines to a network in a number of different ways depending on

your network requirements.

Internal Networking Let’s say you have a scenario where you have four

VMs and you want them to see each other, but nothing else. No Internet

connection: just four VMs that think they are the only computers in existence.

Go into the settings for all four VMs and set their respective virtual NICs to

an internal network (see Figure 22-13). In this case, every VM running on

that one hypervisor will act as though it is connected to its own switch and

nothing else.

Figure 22-13 Configuring a VM for an internal network in VirtualBox

Internal networking is really handy when you want to play with some cool

networking tool but don’t want to do something potentially unsafe to

anything but your little virtual test network. I often find fun utilities that do

all kinds of things that you would never want to do on a real network

(malware utilities, network scanners, and so on). By making a few VMs and

connecting them via an internal network, I can play all I wish without fear of

messing up a real network.

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