As other said, you should avoid changing the existing IP of the VM to avoid extra issues. There are several methods to make the connection between the VM and the physical, but easiest for me was to add a second Network adapter to the VM, which had an IP of the same range as my physical computer. You will use this second adapter as a bridge only, while the original one remains untouched, used for the 16 Server processes.
If you can ping the new IP from your physical machine, all you need is to modify the Client bat with that IP and you are done.