That rather depends on how you have the virtual machine configured. Most installations have the VM actually sharing your IP address on the local machine using a NAT (Network Address Translation). I used to mess with this technology a lot and was actually able to get it to do a number of very specialized functions, including taking control of the external network card and configuring it, creating an internal bridge that connected several other VM’s as well as a secondary network card for the internal lan. The Host OS was connected to the virtual bridge and all instances as well as the lan had to go through the firewall VM I had setup to monitor traffic and protect from external incursions. All of this (including internal DHCP, DNS, WEB servers, etc.) were run on a single Tian motherboard with an AMD X2 CPU running at an effective clock speed of slightly less than 6 Ghz (3.02 Ghz per core) and with 1 TB of internal storage across 5 drives (all raid 1) and 64 GB of on board ram (the motherboard had 8 slots). That machine is slightly more than 12 years old now and is still a beast by today’s standards. I used Ubuntu Linux on a 3.x kernel, VmWare server 1.x and 12 separate VM’s on this machine. That machine is still in service and has protected my internet connection without fail all these years.
The firewall VM is an OpenBSD OS, the web server, DNS, DHCP and even PXE server are all Linux, I also hosted a Windows VM supporting windows XP, another for Windows 7 and even OS X Leopard. SO, yeah, I know exactly what this tech can do. I even ran screen readers on the relevant operating systems, including the host OS. VMWare server 1 was easy to work with as the console was fully accessible on linux with ORCA. After VMWare transitioned to 2.x and later, they changed the console to a java script interface which made accessibility for configuration, Maintenance and setup a real pain, if not downright impossible.. Also, just so I didn’t have to deal with the performance hit, all the operating systems on board had direct access to their own HDD partitions, which were not shared). This maximized OS performance and also aided in security isolation. The PXE server I had running on there used NFS for serving up bootable images (linux, windows, OS X) and was also OpenBSD based. So, anyone in the house could either use their own OS, or PXE boot into a standardized bootable image from my machine. BTW, I also ran a VPN directly from the firewall instance and everyone inside my lan had to go through that VPN to get to the outside world. This allowed me to further protect the connection and allow for anonymous surfing of the web. So, there you have it, I became an expert with this simply by experimenting with the technology. :) -Eric > On May 19, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > I have a new Vpn account from mullvad.net <http://mullvad.net/> and they have > a client for the mac. > If i have the mac client running and start a virtual machine for example in > Linux or WIndows. > Do i need the versions for the virtual machine too? > Thanks in advance. > /A > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/B026A91C-3415-4BCC-9E8E-7DF9ED47D6E2%40pipkrokodil.se > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/B026A91C-3415-4BCC-9E8E-7DF9ED47D6E2%40pipkrokodil.se?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/070E584C-ED01-4B31-AD6D-1C00983AB109%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
