Comments on: Adding VMNet’s in VMWare Fusion 3

By: Tom Vachon

Tom Vachon — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:15:02 +0000

Unfortuently, I have not found a way to do a disconnected VMNET like you can do in workstation. The only thing I can suggest is to do 2 reserved IP host only nets with dhcp and 1 reserved IP host only net without dhcp. I can paste that configuration if you want.

By: KB3NZQ

KB3NZQ — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:59:22 +0000

I would like to add 3 more VMnets in vmware fusion 2 without dhcp and not connetced to the host and 1 that is connected to the host but with out dhcp and i also donot want them connecting to the outside network that the host is connected to

By: sreekanth251

sreekanth251 — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:28:28 +0000

That worked without any issues …. Thanks a lot lot lot for you Tom ….

By: sreekanth251

sreekanth251 — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:45:51 +0000

Thanks a lot Tom …

I will try it tonight and give you an update on it ….

Once again Thanks a lot for your help.

By: Tom Vachon

Tom Vachon — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:55:24 +0000

Here is an example setup, I am encasing files in dashed lines, they do not belong in the file.

sudo /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmnet-apps.sh –stop

Edit /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/networking
——————
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.130.0
answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_2_DHCP yes
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.131.0
answer VNET_2_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_8_DHCP yes
answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH A06F544138530491C58E2DC2E57DE2E036392486
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.235.0
answer VNET_8_NAT yes
answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
—————

cd /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion
cp -R vmnet1 vmnet2
Alter the vmnet1 dhcpd.conf to match the ip range in the networking file.

sudo /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmnet-apps.sh –start

That should be it.

By: sreekanth251

sreekanth251 — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:36:19 +0000

Hi Thomas thanks a lot for this posting …

I am trying to add vmnet2 host only adapter for setting up Oracle RAC. I am a little bit confused as i am brand new to vmware fusion.

From the above posting …

“Now edit the networking file. If you want a host only network, copy the VNET1 entries, if you want NAT copy the VNET8 entries. Paste and modify the entries to match your vmnet folder’s #.”

What’s is the name of the networking file that you are referring to?

Also can you provide me a example to add secong host only adapter …

Thanks a lot for your help …

Sreekanth