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Hi,

I have lab environment I'm trying to setup in VB, several MS server 2008 VM's and I want to make one a DHCP server. I'm doing this from work and we are on a domain with an existing DHCP, DNS server so I dont want to conflict with that. I set my VM network adapter to internal but then I try setting up DHCP it requires a DNS server, which I cant give because of no internet access.

I'm curious of what the correct network adapter mode I should use to make my VM a DHCP and DNS server without conflicting with my companies domain?

Create two network interfaces for your DNS server :
- One as internal on which you will set DNS & DHCP service (these two can be configured on a per-interface/ip basis, see the properties)
- One as NAT or Bridged that will be your "exit" for anything else.

More details on Perryg's tutorial which is normally for domain setup but works exactly the same way.