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harringg
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‎12-14-2022 04:50 PM

Could not connect 'Ethernet0' to virtual network '/dev/vmnet8'

Mac Host

2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5

13.0.1 (22A400)

VMWare Fusion Professional Version 13.0.0 (20802013)

I've been reading lots of posts about earlier Mac OS Host versions and VMWare with issues with:

Could not connect 'Ethernet0' to virtual network '/dev/vmnet8'

Successfully added CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-2009.iso, but when trying to use Share with my Mac, and I click on the Connect Network Adapter, it won't "stick".  Using Bridged Network works fine.

Any solutions for this setup?

 

 

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Technogeezer
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‎12-15-2022 11:59 AM

Could you open a Terminal session while the Fusion GUI is open, issue the following:

ps -ef | grep -i vmnet-natd

and post the results?

Also could you post a copy of the file /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking

- Paul (Technogeezer)
Editor of the Unofficial Fusion Companion Guides
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harringg
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‎12-15-2022 05:16 PM

0 91594 1 0 6Dec22 ?? 0:51.35 /Library/Application Support/VMware/VMware Fusion/Services/Contents/Library/vmnet-natd -s 6 -m /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/nat.mac -c /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/nat.conf 501 75115 74274 0 7:11PM ttys000 0:00.01 grep -i vmnet-natd

Only files/directories here: /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking

lastLocationUsed

license-fusion-130-e4-202208

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harringg
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‎12-15-2022 05:19 PM

Correction (couldn't edit original post)

Root directory:

/Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/

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harringg
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‎12-15-2022 06:07 PM

Updated to MacOS 13.1 and rebooted and it appears now that the NAT is working

And Network file is now in the directory.

VERSION=1,0
answer VNET_1_DHCP yes
answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH D293DD36CCA671E19E45E6C82B5626107136BBB3
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.252.0
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_UUID B4F8EFAD-2169-4459-9A52-0CBDEB44FBFB
answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_8_DHCP yes
answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH 2969ED9D9E0F57BCCC0FAE7EBF646BADD619D3E7
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.62.0
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_UUID 569C7569-CD92-409A-8670-37708D9DA669
answer VNET_8_NAT yes
answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes

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