I am putting together a SVN demonstration using a WinXP Virtual PC image, and am unable to see my host machine from within the VPC guest OS.
This demo will be performed while disconnected from our LAN, so I installed the Microsoft Loopback adapter on my laptop. In the TCP/IP settings I manually set the IP address to 192.168.3.1 to avoid conflicts with our internal network. In the VPC image settings I set the Network Type to Microsoft Loopback Adapter and set the IP address to 192.168.3.2.
I cannot ping my host machine from the guest OS and vice versa. I've followed through several different how-to pages on this subject but still cannot determine why this isn't working. What am I missing here?
Best Answer
It might just be because by default Windows XP Firewall blocks ping requests.
To enable pings do the following: