After so many years with VMWare Player
being free for Windows and Linux, VMware finally released a free/community version of Fusion!
One of the main restrictions in the free version is that you cannot create/edit any networks.
But sometimes you need that little change such as using a different network range on your VMware NAT interface or the Host-only one.
It's quite easy after all. The settings are stored in /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/networking
:
VERSION=1,0
answer VNET_1_DHCP yes
answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH 26..
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.152.0
answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_2_DISPLAY_NAME custom-private
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.115.0
answer VNET_8_DHCP yes
answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH 77..
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.135.0
answer VNET_8_NAT yes
answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
add_bridge_mapping en0 3
add_bridge_mapping en5 4
The ones with a _DHCP_CFG_HASH
setting seem to be the "core" ones:
Share with my Mac
(NAT) - seems to be VNET_8 in my case (matching IP range with UI)Private to my Mac
(Host-Only) - seems to be VNET_1
VNET_2
is a network created in the Pro version (not the community) without DHCP nor NAT, for having a private network between VMs (without internet access and without OSX host access).
Copying those lines to a community installation worked perfectly.