Sometime Users may find themselves in a position that they need to share the Windows XP Guest Virtual Machine’s Internet Connection with the Mac OS X Host and this document will show one of the ways it can be accomplished.
Requirements
OS X 10.4.9 or Higher
VMware Fusion 1.0 or Higher
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 VMware Fusion Virtual Machine
Internet Connectivity from within the XP Guest Virtual Machine.
Active* Network Connection in OS X Host.
While the information presented in this document was written on Mac OS X Tiger and VMware Fusion Windows XP Pro Virtual Machine using a Belkin 54g WiFi USB Network Adapter to provide the Guest's Internet Connectivity the foundation and general directions presented should work on any Device that Internet Connection Sharing can be enabled on. It should also work with Mac OS X Leopard and or Microsoft Windows Vista as well although the graphics and explisit directions would vary.
"*" See comments in document for asterisk reference.
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