3 modes of VM network connection: Bridged, NAT, & Hostonly

Today my topic is how virtual machines communicate with the network.
Virtual machines can communicate with other virtual machines on the same host as well as other physical and virtual machines on the local area network. In order to do so, they need two virtual things: one is virtual NICs (vNICs); and two: Virtual Switches or virtual bridges.
There are basically three network connection modes when we set up virtual NIC : bridged connection; NAT; and Hostonly.

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VMs, virtual machines, physical machines, NICs, network Interface Card, vNICs, virtual bridge, virtual switch, DHCP, virtual DHCP, three modes of connections, bridged connection; NAT, Network address translation, Hostonly