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By: Getting the OSX airport card to bridge on Vmware Fusion 4.1 « Infosec Blog

Getting the OSX airport card to bridge on Vmware Fusion 4.1 « Infosec Blog — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:37:24 +0000

[...] into the issue of getting the airport wifi card to properly bridge with my vmware guests. This blog post describes how to get vmware fusion 3.x working in a bridged configuration. This link here is how I [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:29:36 +0000

Hi, i just found this article and i think it the answer to my problem, but the thing is that i cannot find these file on “/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh”

any help?

im using vmware fusion 4 running on Osx Lion, maybe the directory where the file is not the same for my new version of Os and fusion.

Thanks.

By: nightlion

nightlion — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:37:09 +0000

have you been able to get this working in VMWare Fusion 3 for Mac?

By: tsimien

tsimien — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:39:52 +0000

I was having the same issue. No DHCP assignment in auto bridge mode on Snow Leopard host with a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server 32bit guest machine when using Airport on my host machine on 3.0.5 (I think). I upgraded today to 3.1.1 (282344) and this problem no longer occurs. Also, I had another issue where when I suspended the guest when using Airport on my host machine and then resumed the VM with the host on Ethernet (in a different location), the guest machine would run extremely slowly until I rebooted the guest and the guest would not automatically switch networks either until a reboot occurred. Even when I tried to do an ipconfig /release and /renew in the guest, it still wouldn’t work until a reboot. Now, it still fails to get online automatically with the host machine’s network interface change, but now you can at least use ipconfig to release and renew the IP address and it works now.

By: Babak

Babak — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:04:38 +0000

You’re a life saver, thanks!

By: braceta

braceta — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:46:45 +0000

Thanks for the help Mark! Really great info! You rule!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:53:00 +0000

I left off the rest of the steps. You need to modify the .vmx file for your VM in a text editor and add the following as the last line:

ethernet1.connectionType = “custom”
ethernet1.vnet = “vmnet2″

Really, though, go to the knowledge base article and follow its steps.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:46:45 +0000

Found this KB article in the VMware Communities: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001875

You can add more lines and specify more vmnets, like this:
“$LIBDIR/vmnet-bridge” -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet2.pid vmnet2 en1

By: braceta

braceta — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:47:38 +0000

Good question! I believe you can’t do it..

In VMware Fusion GUI there is no option to select which physical bridged interface is associated with your Virtual Machine..

If you find out, please, let me know!

Cheers

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:33:12 +0000

Thanks very much. I guess at this time there is no way to use both interfaces? I have 2 VM’s and I would like one to use en0, and the other to use en1.