MacBook Pro Maverick Vmware Fusion F5-BIG-VE-LAB

I finally got this to work last night and it was thrilling and disappoint at the same time. The disappointment came from the limitations of fusion.

1. open a terminal session and type in the following command - cat /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking

output will look like this:

answer VNET_1_DHCP yes answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH 92E246053EEA6B7CB0B82DC219EF1718D17C33E9 answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0 answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.253.0 answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes answer VNET_3_DHCP no answer VNET_3_NAT no answer VNET_3_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no answer VNET_8_DHCP yes answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH 62D54CAB586054004EC0B057F4EF4E7704F14749 answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0 answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.185.0 answer VNET_8_NAT yes answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes add_bridge_mapping en0 2

If you look closely and VNET 1 and VNET 8, it gives you the 2 subnets that you can use to set up your VM devices so you can access your device from the external interface. In this case, the subnets are 172.16.253.0/24 and 192.168.185.0/24.

Set your adapters to the following and you should be home free (I configured my external interface on port 1.1 on the LTM)

net adapter 1 = bridged net adapter 2 = host only net adapter 3 = host only net adapter 4 = host only

add a default route for your external interface. ( I used 172.16.253.1 ). I also ran a continuos ping in terminal until I saw the external gate respond and also the external interface on my LTM.