Network troubleshooting commands are important for any VM user. Today we can’t imagine our life without information technology. Access to all this data wouldn’t be possible the actual network connection. Almost all the modern devices nowadays have a way to connect to the the network.
Your Mac and Parallels Desktop virtual machine are no exception! There are several network modes in Parallels Desktop which we covered is one of the s: Bridged, Shared and Host Only network. Let’s summarize the purpose of each in brief: With Shared mode, we use the Mac connection to connect to the external network.
As a side note, you can access your Windows based web server from Mac using the IPv4 address you get when you type 'ipconfig' on Windows. Another way you can get Mac's virtual IP address is to type the following command on Mac OS X's Terminal: ifconfig vnic0 'vnic0' is the virtual ethernet that Parallels installs on your Mac.
It’s the easiest to use because your VM can use any type of network connection available on the Mac to connect to Internet (Ethernet, wifi). Bridged mode is used when you want your VM to establish direct connection with your Mac network card. In Bridged mode your VM will look like a standalone PC on the network. And last but not least is Host only mode. Host-Only network is a closed network that is accessible only to Mac OS X and Windows. Select this option to allow the VM to connect to the host computer and the VMs residing on it and to make it invisible outside of the host computer. But what if something went wrong? What if the default virtual machine setup does not let you surf the internet from Parallels Desktop side, what if the app hangs out which to use? We’ve got some easy troubleshooting steps.
By the way – many of the steps below are applicable to Windows PCs (not only virtual machines). First you need to check the network connection on the Mac side. Mac shares the network connection with the VM, and if you can’t connect to any website from the Mac side you won’t be able to do it from your VM. Quickbooks online for mac 2018.
So in this case you need to check all of Mac settings and contact your provider or system administrator for help. Once you’ve checked the network connection on the Mac side you should do the same thing on the virtual machine side. But in virtual machine we need to perform a bit more steps and actions, because the reason for the dropped network connection could be different. As a first step, check the Parallels Tools performance. A specific component of Parallels Tools works as a sharing of network between Mac and VM and if it has not been installed correctly, that may be the network issue.
We can simply reinstall it with the following steps: • Launch Windows virtual machine. • Disable antivirus in Windows. • Open Control Panel > Programs and Features (Uninstall a program for Windows 10, or Add/Remove programs for Windows XP) and remove Parallels Tools if present.
• Restart Windows. • In Mac menu bar click on Actions (Virtual Machine in older versions) > Install Parallels Tools. • Restart Windows again. • Enable your antivirus back. Once the Parallels Tools have been reinstalled we can check performance of this component to make sure that everything has been installed and works correctly. To do that we need to use the following steps: • Open the Task Manager and find the following processes in process tab: (In Windows 8 you need to click “More details” button > then you will be able to find out the “Process” tab) • Go through processes and make the Parallels Tools and Parallels Tools Service processes are running. Check the connection now. Everything works fine now?
Still an issue? As a next step you need to check and adjust the virtual machine configuration; Check the network adapter status (and if it’s there at all).