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To identify the switch to which a particular virtual machine is connected, select the machine from the ''Inventory'' and refer to the ''Hardware'' panel of the ''Summary'' page. Any ''Network Adapter'' entries will list the name of the network to which that virtual network adapter is connected, which may then be cross referenced with the host information obtained above to identify the corresponding virtual switch (in this case vmnet0).

In order to communicate with the virtual networks, virtual machines need at least one virtual network adapter. Although these are software components running the the VMware Server environment, they appear as physical hardware devices to the guest operating systems, specifically an AMD PCNet adapter on 32-bit guest operating systems, and an Intel Pro/1000 MT adapter for 64-bit and Windows Vista guests. In each of the network configuration modes (Bridged, HostOnly and NAT), the virtual network adapters connect to a ''virtual network switch'', which in turn connects to other network components such as ''host network adapters'', ''host virtual adapters'' and a ''NAT'' and ''DHCP'' server.