No DHCP settings in Virtuak Network Editor

[keensy]

Hi,

I don't seem to have any DHCP settings in the Virtual Network Editor it looks to be in all the documentation but I don't seem to have the option at all am I missing something ?

I am using workstation pro 15.5.6 on Debian

Any help would be very much appreciated

[amohammadimir]

On a Linux host system, you can use the virtual network editor to specify that a local DHCP service distributes IP addresses to virtual machines on the network. To change DHCP settings further, you must edit the DHCP server configuration file.

For the default host-only network: /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcp/dhcp.conf

For the NAT network: /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcp/dhcp.conf

[keensy]

Good Evening,

Thank you so Much I was worried I would have to go back to using windows for my lab!

Regards,

[loungehostmaste]

you can use the dhcpd binary from your linux OS and just disable it entirely in the VMware configs

replaced all the initscripts with own native systemd-units and targets years ago including make every network "host-only" and doing NAT on the host OS

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[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/dhcp/dhcpd-vmware.conf

authoritative;

ddns-update-style none;

ddns-updates off;

default-lease-time 86400;

max-lease-time 259200;

log-facility local7;

subnet 192.168.196.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

option domain-name "vmware.local";

option domain-name-servers 192.168.196.2;

option routers 192.168.196.2;

option ntp-servers 192.168.196.2;

option time-servers 192.168.196.2;

option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

option broadcast-address 192.168.196.255;

range 192.168.196.150 192.168.196.200;

}

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[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/dhcpd-vmware.service

[Unit]

Description=DHCPD VMWare

After=vmware.service

[Service]

Type=notify

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dhcpd -4 -f -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd-vmware.conf -lf /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd-vmware.leases -user dhcpd -group dhcpd --no-pid vmnet8

Restart=always

RestartSec=1

LockPersonality=yes

MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes

NoNewPrivileges=yes

PrivateDevices=yes

PrivateTmp=yes

ProtectControlGroups=yes

ProtectHome=yes

ProtectHostname=yes

ProtectKernelModules=yes

ProtectKernelTunables=yes

RestrictNamespaces=yes

RestrictRealtime=yes

RestrictSUIDSGID=yes

SystemCallArchitectures=native

SystemCallFilter=@system-service @network-io @privileged @setuid

SystemCallFilter=~@clock @mount @obsolete @reboot @resources @swap @module @raw-io

RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_NETLINK AF_PACKET AF_UNIX

CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_CHOWN CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE CAP_NET_BROADCAST CAP_NET_RAW CAP_SETGID CAP_SETUID

UMask=077

ProtectSystem=strict

ReadWritePaths=-/run

ReadWritePaths=-/tmp

ReadWritePaths=-/var/lib/dhcpd

IPAddressDeny=any

IPAddressAllow=localhost

IPAddressAllow=multicast

IPAddressAllow=10.0.0.0/8

IPAddressAllow=192.168.0.0/16

IPAddressAllow=172.16.0.0/12

InaccessiblePaths=-/boot

InaccessiblePaths=-/efi

InaccessiblePaths=-/root

# Fedora 32

ProtectClock=true

ProtectKernelLogs=true

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target