Under Virtual PC 2007, I have a Windows 2000 VM that is connected to the internet and has Firefox 52 and Kerio Personal Firewall installed (the former was possible through many tweaks) but I don't want it using my physical ethernet connection. Instead, I want it to access the net with a virtual ethernet adapter but the problem is, I can't find one (and that VPC didn't come with one, strangely enough). The reason why I wish to do this is because supposing the ESU bypass doesn't work out as it should in months time, I would want to remain online through the VM only and have the host system go offline. I'm not sure if this would work but, it's always a try. Thanks in advance.
Bumping this, because this is very important. I don't wish to be offline forever in the event that the ESU bypass backfires on me. Even so, there's always public computers which would be the worst case scenario... Please help, now.
I've read your both posts multiple times and always had trouble understand what you really mean or what your really ask. Sorry for that. - Virtual PC 2007 is EoL long ago. - Windows 2000?! I guess you mean Windows 7, am I right? - Whatever "virtual" device needs to rely on some hardware (physical). So, connecting a virtual NIC to the network (internet) will require a physical NIC. You can isolate your VM as much as you can, but in the end, it needs to use your physical hardware to communicate with outside world (internet). Pardon me if I'm unable to get you completely right, but if you're afraid of being out of ESU after next Tuesday, then create snapshots, and practice safe browsing rules. WinXP users are still online and still at least so far OK. Perhaps you reword your posts or shade more lights on the issue, so MDL's community can help you.
Well, at least I tried to say what I want the best I can. Also, obviously you misread part of my post. I have a Windows 2000 virtual machine, but it is on a Windows 7 host. Also, yes I know Virtual PC is out of support but I much prefer it than VirtualBox (as I found it too awkward to my tastes). I would've thought that it would need physical hardware for such a thing to work but I want to ask you... how would I be able to isolate my virtual machine? One other thing, I know about safe browsing rules since I first used the Internet fifteen years ago
The only thing coming to my mind would be using NAT for the VM. Then, the internet connections are executed by the VirtualPC executable process. You can, then, isolate that process from the rest of the host OS, maybe by rerouting traffic, or using it as endpoint for tunneling traffic over a VPN or so.
Yes, pretty much. Although Carlos said of how it could be done which I could consider. Another thing I had thought about, which is something entirely different, is to block everything under Windows Firewall for the host OS except for the VirtualPC process. That might sound over-the-top, not unless anybody else may approve of that idea...
Some linux gaming guys do a video card pci express passtru into the vm, im pretty sure you can do the same to a network adapter. It would only be visible to the guest OS. They basically run linux as host and windows as guest, with the gpu going straight to windows.
The problem is that it's MS VirtualPC 2007 SP1 (former Connectix). It's EOL and does not offer any modern features.
Well if that's the case, then I shall change my query... if there's a way to isolate any of my VMs from the host via Internet Options in the VM itself or something. If not, then I'm out of luck.