title: Communicating between Virtual Machines: creating a named pipe?
body: <p>Using the latest release of VMware:</p>
  
  <p>Trying to create a connection between two virtual machines (one with Windows OS, the other with a Linux OS)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/irgfN.png" alt="vmware connection"> </p>
  
  <p>My question is simply: how do you create a reference to the other virtual machine? com_1 is the default pipe name, but will clearly not refer specifically to the Linux OS machine which I wish to connect to. Is there some terminal code that can be used in Linux which will identify it as the other end of the named pipe?</p>