![]() ![]() VMware Fusion provides support for big VM’s and some useful integration between your Mac and Windows VM’s. Please note these are licenceable products unlike VirtualBox, so you will need to either start a free trial of buy a licence before you use VMware Fusion. VMware Fusion is a sofware hypervisor for Mac OS X, it’s VMware’s Mac equivalent of VMware Workstation for Windows and Linux. ![]() Note: If you're already running a webserver on OSX, conflicts might occur on port 80, so use 8080 (as I've shown here) or other port to avoid problems.I have seen several great Linux install guides for Oracle’s free VirtualBox but have never come across a version specifically for VMware Fusion, so here goes lets’s put that right. Upon running boot.sh, all tcp traffic to port 8080 on your OSX host machine will be immediately forwarded to destination port 80 of the virtual machine with IP 172.16.68.188 and make your VM available to your local network on 192.168.1.72:8080. Note: If you can't find the vmnet8 directory, try running locate nat.conf, which is usually where the file resides.ģ) Edit the nat.conf file (using vim/vi etc) and underneath, enter the following: EG: = :ĥ) Reboot VMWare networking by running: /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh -restart I was looking to do the same on OSX (more specifically, allow phones/tablets/devices/people to access my VM for testing purposes) and the following worked perfectly:ġ) Select “NAT” in “Network Adapter” settings on VMWare FusionĢ) cd to the vmnet8 directory cd /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmnet8/ The router would be forwarding traffic directly to the VM without any additional port forwarding. Your other option, is to change the VM from NAT to bridged, in which case your OS X and your Ubuntu VM would be on same subnet with DHCP address handed out by the Internet router. This requires turning off Apache on OS X, if it's running because that would cause a port conflict. You could forward port 80 from the router to your host's IP, then configure /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/nat.conf to port forward port 80 requests to your VM's 172 address on port 80. If you're using NAT, the VM is behind a host level NAT address (172.x.y.z) that your Internet router knows nothing about. We can give out the url to our host machine by replacing localhost with the host computer IP address. We should be able to test this out by going to on our host pc. We enter the ip address for the ubuntu virtual machine, and port 80. We’re going to use port 8080 on the host machine. ![]() Now we are finally on a screen we can actually use. You will see the NAT Settings dialog:Ĭlick the Port Forwarding button, and you will see this dialog: We’re going to assume that the virtual machine is using NAT, and has been assigned an IP address of 192.168.23.128.įirst open the Manage Virtual Networks start menu item:Ĭlick on the NAT tab, and then click on Edit. Let’s use an example: Say you have an Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache running on port 80, and you want to show other people on your network to access the website you are hosting. If you are running a virtual machine on your computer, you may want to access that virtual machine from another computer. Disclaimer I haven't tried this but this is for workstation but I believe it should work ![]()
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