Can I make guest use wired network...

[calit]

Hi all,

Can I make guest use wired network connection, which i have a router connected to (for testing, no dhcp) I am going to install sbs2008 trial in a vm and want it to see this router and think it is part of the network. I also want to keep OS X running using the wireless connection to my main router that supplys my internet.

The guest server will not have access to the internet or network that OS X uses.

Is there a way todo this?

Cheers.

[admin · Accepted solution]

There is a section in the boot.sh file that you can edit to force binding to a specific network adapter

Shutdown all your virtual machines and close VMware Fusion

Open a Terminal window by going to Applications --> Utilities --> Terminal

type the following command and press enter

sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh --stop

type the following command and press enter

sudo pico /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh

find section that looks like this

1. Bridge to host network interface 'en0'.

#"$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 en0

1. Bridge to the primary host network interface (which can change over time).

"$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 ''

remove # from line 2

place a # at the beginning of line 4

the section will now look like this

1. Bridge to host network interface 'en0'.

"$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 en0

1. Bridge to the primary host network interface (which can change over time).

#"$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 ''

press Control + X and press Y to save then press Enter

reboot your mac

[calit]

Cheers for the info, just noticed SBS2008 needs 4Gb of ram.