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Hi all,

 

I'm trying out VMWare Fusion for possible server application but cannot figure out how to get this to work. I'm running Mountain Lion Server guest on Mountain Lion Server host - along with various other VMs.

 

Most of the VMs are my "public" servers. I'm building a tripod network with a very segregated DMZ, so all the public VMs will be on one virtual "network" and I'll take care of routing to/from/etc.

 

That's all easy to say..... but hard to do....

 

I've thought about using VMWare's "host-only-networking". However:

 

1) It's slow (I got 450ms ping times to the host)

2) It's unreliable (kept going up and down)

3) It means that, if I have to restart VMWare, I also have to restart my other non-VMWare VMs and reset the packet filter.

 

This just doesn't work, so I install TunTap (which I also needed for my VPN anyway).

 

So now I have a tap adapter (tap0) which I want to use for my DMZ network. Packet-Filter and VirtualBox have no problems connecting to it... but VMWare simply refuses to acknowledge its existence.

 

So my question: how do I make this work?

 

 

Some things I've thought of:

 

1) Modify the vmx file (just tried this briefly. Doesn't like it - still says it's not connected)

 

2) Let VMWare make vmnet3 and then bridge vmnet3 and tap0 (still has latency/reliability issues)

 

3) Not sure......

 

 

I'd greatly appreciate any advice you can provide!


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