So you don't want Visual Studio to be installed in a Virtual Machine, because that's not what happens in the real-world. You want Visual Studio to be natively on your Windows 8, but easily copy files for deployment to IIS/SharePoint site hosted by your 3-tier virtual machines of Web-App-Database servers. You want to be able to use the Domain Controller's DNS in the virtual machine, so you can type http://intranet.zed.com from Windows 8 Internet Explorer, not from Restricted IE inside your virtual machine. You want to simulate having 2 Datacenters, where 2 virtual machines have different Subnet, and they all...