Is a firewall on VMware needed?

happyguy44 · Posted: 17 Mar 2009 08:57 am Post subject: Is a firewall on VMware needed?

Ok,

I'm new to the Vmware stuff and I've got my machine up but wanted to know if anyone here knew if i need to put a firewall on the Virtual machine running under Vmware if my host PC already has a firewall?

Nate · Posted: 17 Mar 2009 09:55 am Post subject:

Does the VMware have it's own seperate IP?

happyguy44 · Posted: 17 Mar 2009 10:05 am Post subject:

I was hopeing to find someone that at least knew what vmware was

the vmware uses nat to translate my machines private address so i can have multiples up at once
but to the outside it shows the same as this machines

Nate · Posted: 17 Mar 2009 10:13 am Post subject:

Well I have heard of it but never took the time to understand it.
I highly doubt you need a fire wall for it then.

Schoolhacker · Posted: 17 Mar 2009 01:31 pm Post subject:

i dont think it does... i think it uses the same thing as your original computer

AMD · Posted: 19 Mar 2009 01:22 am Post subject:

I believe that you can turn off the windows firewall on vmware because it just showes up as another internet connection, right?

happyguy44 · Posted: 19 Mar 2009 08:08 am Post subject:

I use zonealarm for a firewall and the inside version has windows I was just thinking it also possibly could be used as a exploit since the vmware system has full access to the internet