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VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Question posted: Nov 24, 2008 7:49 PM

Click to view Rob McGrath's profile Novice 11 posts since
May 5, 2008
Hey guys,

I'm trying to get my Xbox 360 to use my Airport connection through Fusion and not my mac side. I don't want to restart my Macbook to open Vista to use ICS for an open NAT all the time, and I would really love to know how to fix this.

Is there a way to give control of my ethernet port to the fusion side? I've set my network status to bridged, but it still doesn't patch it over to the ethernet cable attached.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Re: VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Question

1. Nov 24, 2008 8:44 PM in response to: Rob McGrath
Click to view chort's profile Enthusiast 50 posts since
May 9, 2006
I found that I had to go into Network Settings and disable the local area network connection, then re-enable it in order for it to pickup a DHCP lease after I switched from NAT to Bridged networking.

Re: VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Question

3. Nov 24, 2008 10:32 PM in response to: Rob McGrath
Click to view Bob Zimmerman's profile Hot Shot 259 posts since
Dec 22, 2006
It is possible to bridge a guest to two separate physical interfaces on the host, but I do not think you will be able to accomplish what you want. The problem is that ICS in Windows doesn't bridge network connections. It does its own NAT. There are two ways this could typically go.

First, you have a router upstream of your Mac. This router likely does its own NAT. That would mean that the Xbox is now behind two layers of NAT, and unless UPnP is far more frightening than I think, the double-NAT would prevent the Xbox from mapping ports on the upstream router.

Second, your Mac has a public IP address on it and you just have a bridge to your ISP's network. In this case, most ISPs don't give normal users multiple public addresses, so Windows would have to share the Mac's address. Again, we have the double-NAT thing going on.

How is your Mac connected to the Internet?

Re: VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Question

5. Nov 24, 2008 10:50 PM in response to: Rob McGrath
Click to view chort's profile Enthusiast 50 posts since
May 9, 2006

So you're connecting to your router wirelessly, and plug the Xbox into the ethernet port? How many network interfaces show up in Windows when you're running it as a guest? How many virtual NICs do you have configured for the VM? You'll need two virtual NICs, you should be able to make them both bridged. First try without the Xbox plugged in so you can figure out which one gives Internet access (i.e. which one is bridged to the Airport), then plug the Xbox in and do your Windows ICS. I don't see a reason why that wouldn't work

Re: VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Question

10. Dec 2, 2008 11:07 AM in response to: Rob McGrath
Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
I don't know about anyone else, but it's not clear to me what you're trying to do or where you're having problems.

Re: VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Question

12. Dec 2, 2008 11:44 AM in response to: Rob McGrath
Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
I am trying to use Fusion to bridge my Airport connection to an ethernet cable.

"to an ethernet cable" doesn't really make sense to me, but I assume you mean you want to go from a wireless connection to a wired connection. I'm also not quite following why it's important that the guest do the bridging - is it a wireless authentication issue, something else?

Regardless, to do this you will need to manually bridge to the wired and wireless interfaces. Fusion doesn't currently have a UI do this, but you can use Advanced Networking Configuration - Tokamak Networking Scripts for VMware Fusion.

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