How to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP & Get Virtual PC VPC Network working

 

The 4 steps to setting up a network and VPC.

1. Add the MS Loopback Adapter to your physical machine, with a static IP Address (this is actually harder to do than it sounds; it took me about half an hour to find how to install it).
2. Configure all my virtual machines with 3 network cards: One tied to the wireless card, one tied to the ethernet card, and one tied to the loopback adapter.
3. Configure the first two cards with DHCP, and the last one with a static IP different from the host machine's one.
4. Add entries in the host files of all machines using the static ip addresses to enable quick name resolution.

Thanks Tomas

How to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP