G'day,

I've setup a Virtual Machine with windows XP + sp2 from a Windows 2003
machine (server administrator configured it) and copied the VM to the Vista
32 sp1 machine to use.

When I open up the XPsp2 VM on a Vista 32 computer (user) I had to do the
following.
1. Set the IP address manually on the VM (didn't like to set it from DHCP).
2. Enabled public sharing on the VM XP system.  Vista could see the VM PC
and access public folders.
3. Could ping the local Vista PC ip address.
4. Could ping the local DHCP server/router.
5. Failed to ping any internet addresses. Eg. ping www.microsoft.com
6. With the Vista and XP firewalls off, failed to ping internet addresses.
7. With the vista and XP Firewalls off, failed to ping any other IPAddresses
in our WAN (VPN IPSEC).
8. Vista doesn't display icons for all our newtwork resources (Some VPN/WAN
discovery problem), but happily connects to those resources via a lmhost
file. So I know I have connectivity.
9. After enabling Vista internet sharing and disabling firewalls, failed to
ping internet addresses from the VM.
10. Couldn't find out how to install a loopback provider on Vista (not sure
if this is a windows XP thing).

So I have a VM that really needs to access other resources from the WAN
(like out SQL Server 2005on Windows 2003) as the VM is being used for
application installation testing, but the lack of network connectivity is
blocking me.
What do I need to do to get this work?