VMware Fusion Custom Networking for BIG-IP VE Lab

I've used VMware workstation on Windows and Fusion on OS X for quite some time and I'm a big fan of both platforms. That said, the lack of a network settings editor built in to Fusion (I understand i...
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Apr 05, 2021

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the pointers here and that's a great article. However, just wanted to give a quick update here since there were a couple of changes since MacOS BigSur and VMware Fusion updates.

The edit on /Library/Preferences/Vmware\ Fusion/networking remains the same and thanks for that.

However, on top of that I had to manually create "/Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/vmnetX" folder (where X is the vmnet number you picked) for each vmnet added to "networking" config above. I also copied the "dhcpd.conf" from "vmnet1" as template and edited it and changed the addresses accordingly.

The "vmnet" interfaces no longer magically appear like in your example above. I had to type this command:

$ sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli --stop
$ sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli --start

And then I was able to select the vmnetX interfaces I created.