One of the major problems on using operating Systems on VPC is the hardware detection problem. I tried running my Windows 2003 server on VPC with Windows XP as the host.
I tried connecting to the internet with it but it does not work. I configured the VPC to use my Windows XP Host Ethernet Adapter but still not signals.
Realizing that the issue might be on the Virtual OS. I did an ipconfig to check the details. True enough what I saw was that the Virtual OS could not detect the Local DNS server.
To solve the problem I configured my virtual OS ethernet adapter manually. I did this by specifying the default gateway as well as the DNS address.
Eureka. It worked nicely. I could now connect to the internet with my VPC.