On 3/25/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > >"Bridged" means the guest shares the host's network adapter directly but > >it looks like a completely different system to everyone else including > >the host - that is, it needs its own IP address on the same subnet. > Okay, I understand that. However, my computer is linked up to a DSL > modem and has no subnet, per se, and the DSL host assigns my IP > address. NAT is in fact exactly what you want here, I think. VMware will assign an IP from one of the unrouted ranges that are reserved for LANs for cummunication between the host and guest, but any connections from the guest to the internet will be translated to/from the host's DSL IP.