Change VMWare Fusion 6 NAT IP space
I ran into a problem where the VMWare Fusion default NAT address space clashed with the VPN for our dev environment. For reference, with VMWare Fusion 6, the files are located in:
$ /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion
To change the default address range for NAT, you need to change the settings for vmnet8 in the following files:
networking
vmnet8/dhcpd.conf
vmnet8/nat.conf
networking
change the following two lines to match your desired network configuration
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 172.31.213.0
vmnet8/dhcpd.conf
change your subnet and host entries to match your desired network configuration
subnet 172.31.213.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 172.31.213.128 172.31.213.254;
option broadcast-address 172.31.213.255;
option domain-name-servers 172.31.213.2;
option domain-name localdomain;
default-lease-time 1800; # default is 30 minutes
max-lease-time 7200; # default is 2 hours
option netbios-name-servers 172.31.213.2;
option routers 172.31.213.2;
}
host vmnet8 {
hardware ethernet 00:50:56:C0:00:08;
fixed-address 172.31.213.1;
option domain-name-servers 0.0.0.0;
option domain-name "";
option routers 0.0.0.0;
}
vmnet8/nat.conf
change your ip and netmask entries to match your desired network configuration
# NAT gateway address
ip = 172.31.213.2
netmask = 255.255.255.0
Written by Katherine McKinley
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