The setup is iMac Pro with a single wired trunk connection and multiple VLANs. When trying to get network running to a single VM with Windows 10 guest OS it has not been very successful or functional...
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The setup is iMac Pro with a single wired trunk connection and multiple VLANs. When trying to get network running to a single VM with Windows 10 guest OS it has not been very successful or functional. I have tried both NAT and Bridge. 1. NAT: DHCP does not give the Windows 10 guest an IP address. The dhcp and nat processes for vmnet8 are running. If I set the interface inside the VM to the first IP address in the DHCP range and setting the proper gate way to 192.168.249.2. I can ping to local devices on the network and the internet. DNS lookup works. However, browsing does not. Q1: There is no setting in fusion that I'm aware of on how NAT should be routed. Only one of the VLANs is appropriate for the NAT translation. One could hope that the "Share with my Mac" setting would pick the VLAN that has the default route. 2. Bridge: Ifconfig shows a bridge that has vlan and vmenet3 as a member. The guest OS has an address on the same subnet as the VLAN. Using tcpdump, I can see that packets go out from the VM on all three of vmenet3, the bridge and the vlan. Responses come back to the vlan and the bridge but are not forwarded to the vmenet3. If someone has complete network functionality on either NAT or bridge to a fusion VM on a macOs system that has a trunk connection and VLANs please share the VMware Fusion/networking and nat/dhcp conf files and the VMs .vmx file. From googling my experience seems to have been going on for well over 2 years across various versions of Fusion and macOs since Catalina.
