I was having some issues trying to monitor my VM folder from another machine on a network, and decided to figure it out for myself and make a guide for it rather than bothering people with questions.

Example Scenario:
You're using a Virtual Machine (for example, LinuxRouter's VM from the sticky section of these forums) on a Windows 7 desktop.  But you want to monitor it's progress using HFM or FAHmon on an XP laptop.
I'm assuming that prior to this, you are able to browse/transfer files normally using windows networking, but you just can't get HFM or FAHmon to connect to the VM on the Win 7 machine.

I'm also assuming you don't know much if anything about Linux.

If you've followed the guides and suggestions, then you're probably using VMPlayer and have the Virtual Machine running in "NAT Mode".

We want to switch that to "Bridged Mode".

Steps:
(I'm assuming the Virtual Machine is currently running and Folding):

1. At the top of the VMware Player window, click the VM drop-down button in the toolbar.
2. Select Settings...
3. Click Network Adapter in the left-hand column
4. Select Bridged in the right-hand column
5. Click OK
6. Left-click your mouse inside the Virtual Machine window
7. Simultaeneously press Alt + F2.  This should make it appear that you've cleared the screen and ask you to log in
8. Log into the client (probably username = fah and password = fah1234)
9. Type the following commands in order:

• /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop
• rmmod e1000
• modprobe e1000
• /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start
• ifconfig eth0

It should now look like the screenshot below:

Note the new IP address, I've circled it in yellow above.

Use this new IP address to monitor your VM client in HFM/FAHmon on your other machine, something like this: