I'm running VMware Fusion 6.01 on Mountain Lion (10.8.3). I started off over a year ago with Fusion 4.x on Lion.
I tried to install a Linux VM (Xubuntu) from a LiveCD of a product we're using, with the network adapter setup in bridged mode. I could never get that working, so under the assumption that it was an issue with the LiveCD, I moved on to Ubuntu 12.04.
I'm still not able to get bridged mode to work completely. The VM can work just fine in NAT mode, with functionality as expected.
In bridged mode, the guest (10.1.2.49) can access the host (10.1.2.62), and the host can access the guest, but no one else on the network can see the guest, and the guest can't communicate with anyone else on the network.
The host sees the following:
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=2b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>
ether 3c:07:54:79:3e:17
inet6 fe80::3e07:54ff:fe79:3e17%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 10.1.2.62 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.2.255
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
en1: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 7c:c3:a1:a1:f5:d1
media: autoselect (<unknown type>)
status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
ether 0e:c3:a1:a1:f5:d1
media: autoselect
status: inactive
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
lladdr 3c:07:54:ff:fe:c1:2a:a6
media: autoselect <full-duplex>
status: inactive
utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1380
inet6 fe80::7422:8404:8575:f2a4%utun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet6 fd29:87fb:70f9:626d:7422:8404:8575:f2a4 prefixlen 64
utun1: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1380
inet6 fe80::7422:8404:8575:f2a4%utun1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
inet6 fd00:6587:52d7:413:7422:8404:8575:f2a4 prefixlen 64
vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet 172.16.247.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.247.255
vmnet8: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet 172.16.117.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.117.255
On the guest, I tried turning off the first adapter created during the creation of the vm (Network Adapter), disabled it within the guest, rebooted the guest, and then added a new adapter (Network Adapter 2), to no avail. The guest adapter is manually configured (no DHCP). The following is what the interfaces look like on the guest side:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:9a:75:09
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:9a:75:13
inet addr:10.1.2.49 Bcast:10.1.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe9a:7513/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10667 errors:0 dropped:8 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1042535 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:254172 (254.1 KB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:920 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:920 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:70352 (70.3 KB) TX bytes:70352 (70.3 KB)
I've disabled any unused network adapters on the host (wifi, bluetooth pan); still no connectivity outside of the guest-to-host.
I've checked my Console logs and don't see any obvious errors related to VMware in there, though being new to this config, I could easily be missing something.
Where do I go from here? This seems like such a simple thing, but I've not been able to find any supporting docu that details the file structure in place for configuring Fusion, nor much in the way of troubleshooting this outside of several posts here in the forums.
Thanks for any insight you might be able to shed, in advance!