{"id":123,"date":"2011-01-14T18:37:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T22:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:24:50","slug":"how-to-edit-dhcp-server-for-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"How to edit DHCP server for Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: mceinline;\">Crap, I am mixing versions of Fusion down below and it is partly because I do not have a clean install of Fusion on my laptop! I do on the iMac and that is what is telling me I have different systems!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/message\/1403649#1403649\">Re: Scripts to manage Fusion network settings<\/a> is a good place to see the differences.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/nefariousdesigns.co.uk\/archive\/2010\/03\/controlling-dhcp-for-vmware-fusion-vms\/\">Controlling DHCP for VMWare Fusion VMs<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Note: I had to edit<\/p>\n<pre>\/Library\/Application Support\/VMware Fusion\/networking<\/pre>\n<p>and also reboot the MacBook to get this to work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communig8.com\/articles\/77-vmware-fusion-virtual-network-configuration-27-august-2010.html\">VMware Fusion Virtual Network Configuration, 27 August 2010<\/a> has a different approach.<\/p>\n<p>To actually change the domain-name, you will want to edit vmnet-dhcpd.conf:<\/p>\n<pre>KinMage:VMware Fusion thomas$ grep domain-name vmnet-dhcpd.conf\r\n# We set domain-name-servers to make some DHCP clients happy\r\n    option domain-name-servers %hostaddr%;\r\n    option domain-name \"loghyr.com\";\r\nKinMage:VMware Fusion thomas$ sudo .\/vmnet-cli -c\r\n...\r\nKinMage:VMware Fusion thomas$ sudo .\/vmnet-cli --start\r\n...<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crap, I am mixing versions of Fusion down below and it is partly because I do not have a clean install of Fusion on my laptop!&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macs","category-systems","category-vm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}