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How To Connect to the Serial Console of a FreeBSD guest running under VMware Fusion 11 Pro

So Cisco's AnyConnect prevents access to virtual local networks, too, great!

Turns out, you can do more with a serial port in VMware Fusion than logging it's output. Like, use it as a proper serial console so you can log in when something is messing with your network stack.

This primarily shows @kuenishi's directions still work on macOS 10.14 Mojave with VMware Fusion 11.x Pro.

  1. Create VM, add serial port, make sure VM is shut down, edit .vmx file's `serial0' lines to look like this: