How do I connect to a VM using WMI in python?

I'm trying to make a script in python which fetches several pieces of information (such as CPU name, network adapters) about machines in my network.

The script is currently working on my machine by using wmi.WMI() (or wmi.WMI('localhost')) to connect.

But now I want to see if it works for other machines as well. For this purpose, I've installed VMWare and set up a Virtual Machine (running Windows XP). I'd like to know how to connect to it.

I've read that you can simply use wmi.WMI([machine name or IP]) but putting in the IP ipconfig gives me does not seem to work. I get the error The RPC server is unavailable.

Could anybody help me please? Thank you in advance.