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Use simulator and VMWare Fusion
Getting confused by the network setting I have to use with VMWare Fusion on a Mac. There an two network adapters created in the Clone 1 VM, one NAT and one Host-Only. Fusion doesn't create virtual adapters on the Mac. Can someone please point out how to use the simulator in this kind of environment? Appreciate it!
You can use bridged, NAT, or host-only, but it's just a matter of making sure you are aware of the networking considerations for each networking type.
VMware's KB spells out the networking types used in Fusion here:
Bridged is usually the easiest as it just allows you to add an IP address to your VM and get it online quickly. If you don't know the right IP to use on the VM, you can also go with NAT (vmnet8) and just use an IP address in the network assigned to vmnet8. (As seen from ifconfig on the Mac.) Mine is set up with 172.16.222.0/24 and the VM's gateway would be 172.16.222.1 I believe.
If you don't want the VM to have external connectivity, host-only (vmnet1) will function just fine. vmnet1 also works well for backend node-to-node communication when running multiple VMs on your Fusion host. My Macs are using 172.16.73.0/24 on vmnet8.
selllis
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Posted October 5th, 2015 14:00
Playing around and it seems that the adapter with NAT must be set to Bridged and the most important, don't upgrade the VM to version 8 of VMWare Fusion. It looks like it don't boot completely with this upgrade. So it looks like it's solved :-)