Please help me. I have been beset by a problem.

[fhyf20099]

The operating system of my host computer:

Centos7.4

The version of the vmware workstation: 

Pro 14 for linux

The issue:

    If I do some settings on the vmware by modifying the configuration files, it won't become effective unless I reboot the operating system,it is also no

use to restart the vmware. For example, I want to open a port which can nat to a virtual machine, so I modify the configuration file "/etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf",then,I need to reboot the OS to enforce effective.

   I wonder if there is a command to enforce the vmware to reload the configuration files or some way others to enforce effective without rebooting the OS.

Thank you very much!

[continuum · Accepted solution]

Try to stop the vmware NAT service as root.
Then modify the config file.
Then start the vmware NAT service again.

[continuum]

Forgot to mention in last post ....
Probably you should also stop the vmware DHCP service - that depends on the config chances.