{"id":2265,"date":"2011-05-06T21:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T21:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2265.html"},"modified":"2012-01-12T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T14:14:44","slug":"using-a-vpn-from-the-guest-os-in-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2011\/05\/06\/using-a-vpn-from-the-guest-os-in-parallels\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a VPN from the guest OS in Parallels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem statement: I am running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and have a Windows 7 virtual machine running under Parallels 5. I want to have <em>both<\/em> of them connected to a remote VPN at the same time. Getting the host Mac to connect to the VPN was not a problem. But connecting to the VPN from the Windows 7 guest would not work. It would just sit there at the &#8220;Verifying user name and password&#8230;&#8221; message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Set the virtual machine instance to use Bridged Networking (Default Adapter) instead of Shared Networking.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure that the advanced options for the VPN in the host OS X are <em>not<\/em> set to send all traffic over the VPN connection. (This is actually the default setting, but if you&#8217;ve just spent an hour fucking around with your network configuration trying to make it work, you may very well have changed this.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2011\/bridged_networking.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This now allows me to connect the VPN on the host and the guest completely independently. (Either one or the other, or both at the same time.) I have no idea if this is a universal solution; if it doesn&#8217;t work for you, asking me why really isn&#8217;t going to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem statement: I am running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and have a Windows 7 virtual machine running under Parallels 5. I want to have both of them connected to a remote VPN at the same time. Getting the host Mac to connect to the VPN was not a problem. But connecting to the VPN &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2011\/05\/06\/using-a-vpn-from-the-guest-os-in-parallels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using a VPN from the guest OS in Parallels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}