Hi,
I know this has been a touchy discussion for years, and I have been sifting through numerous papers, forum discussions and such, but still don't have an answer.
My issue is the dreaded bridged networking. I just can't get it to work. NAT works perfectly well, whether I am using wireless or wired, but as soon as I switch to bridged networking, I lose all network connectivity. I have tried to specify which adapter to use, to no avail. My main VM was imported from Parallel, so I thought it was something to do with the import, so I built a brand new Windows 7 VM and I had the same problem... When the network adapter was set to NAT, it worked fine, but as soon as I switched to bridged network, it stopped working.
Here is my Fusion networking file:
VERSION=1,0
answer VNET_1_DHCP yes
answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH F25D695B23C0AF68D23E9ABFB8B103B903A5FBFA
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.111.0
answer VNET_1_NAT no
answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_8_DHCP yes
answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH 8A0B6B6EF0550988122F55C0FBCF56DE13850CCF
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.16.240.0
answer VNET_8_NAT yes
answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_9_DHCP yes
answer VNET_9_DHCP_CFG_HASH F641F3664200B0ACA4DDB5AA9AC8CAE5D4C6EC10
answer VNET_9_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_9_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.7.0
answer VNET_9_NAT no
answer VNET_9_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
add_bridge_mapping en0 2
add_bridge_mapping en1 3
I created the VNET_9 adapter using the UNF utility in an effort to get this to work, but no go.
Here are the lines from the VMX file for my VM that are related to the network adapter when set up for NAT:
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:5B:49:34"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.bsdName = "en1"
ethernet0.displayName = "Wi-Fi"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.vnet = "vmnet3"
ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "FALSE"
and the same lines when set up for bridged networking:
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.startConnected = "FALSE"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:5B:49:34"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.bsdName = "en1"
ethernet0.displayName = "Wi-Fi"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.vnet = "vmnet3"
ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"
As you can see, it uses vmnet3 for the bridged connection, which according to the networking file is correct.
Any thoughts that could help me figure this out?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Bertrand.