As usual with Apple it’s really easy to use, as to just turn it on the from the Settings app, Personal Hotspot menu.

It will start sharing your internet connection with a given password via Wifi and USB at the same time, if you have the iPhone connected to your Mac. There’s also a 3rd option to share it via Bluetooth only, as well.

Although very easy to use, you can’t change the Wifi name SSID, at least on the phone (bummer..). This name is taken from your iPhone name in iTunes.

So my tip, in order to rename your Wifi SSID you need to change your iPhone Name on iTunes. Just take a look at the screenshot on the left.

Easy, now your Personal Hotspot Wifi name is renamed to whatever you want.

In order to VMWare Fusion start to bind your virtual bridge interfaces you need to edit the file at:

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

Locate in the file the following code:

# vmnet-bridge puts itself in background (daemon mode)
# Bridge to host network interface 'en0'.
#"$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 en0
# Bridge to the primary host network interface (which can change over time).
"$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 ''

And change to this:

# vmnet-bridge puts itself in background (daemon mode)
# Bridge to host network interface 'en0'.
"$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 en1
# Bridge to the primary host network interface (which can change over time).
# "$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge" -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid vmnet0 ''

Notice I’ve change the en0 interface (the wired NIC) to en1 (the Airport).

Restart VMWare services, including vmnet-bridge by issuing the following command:

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

Yeahh.. Now my VM discovered an IP address on the wireless network. (DHCP was running on the Airport interface since I was using Internet Sharing in Mac OS X Leopard).