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I have tried Parallels Desktop 6, VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox when trying to run a Virtual Machine with a Bridged network adapter. I simply select the adapter interface (en0) and then press on.
However, 'Bridged' mode depends on the configuration of a network, which the host machine is currently connected to. There could be a static IP in some specific subnet or an auto-configuration by DHCP, or the host could be just off-line, so the network could be even not configured. Bridged: Default Adapter corresponds to whichever network adapter is chosen as the default (the first in the list System Preferences > Network) on the Mac. Host-Only Network This mode is similar to Shared Network except that this virtual subnet (10.37.129.x) is isolated from the outer world. I have tried Parallels Desktop 6, VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox when trying to run a Virtual Machine with a Bridged network adapter. I simply select the adapter interface (en0) and then press on. When the VM Loads, I try to load a web page on my mac system and nothing loads, the only way to bring my network back is to restart my system without. My MBP is connected to a wireless network only, running WPA2. I’m running VMWare Fusion 3.0.2 (232708) on OS X 10.6.2 (Although this occurred on VMF v1 and v2 as well as OS X 10.5). The VM is Windows 7 Ultimate (although this occurred with Win XP also).
When the VM Loads, I try to load a web page on my mac system and nothing loads, the only way to bring my network back is to restart my system without starting the virtual machine.
Parallels and multiple VM's. Discussion in 'UK Macs' started by Ian Robinson. Address but also bridge on the Mac network connection? Ian Robinson Guest. Quick question for anyone running Parallels on an Intel Mac. Do you know if you can set up a few VM's running Windows server (say one as a DC, one as Exchange and one as an SQl.
The NAT type connection works but I'm looking for a bridged mode as I will be running a server on that Virtual Machine.
Added detail:
It's on a desktop machine, but I have done some tests.
I had tried setting the MAC address of the bridged interface in the VM to the same one of my physical adapter. This still broke my systems connection to the network.
I then tried To run in bridged mode, stopped the VM then used:
to restart my adapter. This worked and gave my connection back. But when it's done with the VM running nothing works. So I'm kind of lost here.
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If this is a work system, your network admins may have the switch configured to only allow a specific MAC address from a specific port and may be disabling that port when the switch sees another MAC from the VM.
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I have +1'ed OldWolf as it is what I would say.
However, I will try to give an answer that gets around this.
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If you are in an environment where you have only one RJ45 port enabled to you, or a managed network, If you purchase a RJ45/Ethernet Router (A router with a RJ45 port instead of an RJ11 and modem), then set it to forge the MAC address of your machine... It should give you the ability to have virtual machines in bridged mode.
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