This is mostly cobbled together from this post which came from this post - repeated here for posterity / safeguard. So here follows my method for porting a VMWare Fusion virtual machine to VMWare ESXi. vmwarevm file, you’ll see these files there (and a bunch of other crap.) The danger here though is that some of those configuration files will be Fusion specific, and if you try to load them in ESXi, you’ll get configuration issues. vram) which will be created if you modify machine settings such as RAM allocation etc. vmdk files - these are the (virtual) hard disks attached to the machine vmx file - this is a description/definition of the machine And, one step further, the things it really only needs are: vmwarevm file is little more than a wrapper around the various bits that a VM needs to run. I looked at ovftool - and after passing out trying to read the million switches and options and complex terminology - not to mention some pretty scathing thoughts on it in the VMWare forums, I fortunately stumbled over a way of doing it. I initially looked at the Converter tool - but remembering the pain from last time - wanted to find a new way. We’ve become so accustomed to “draggy-droppy it just sorta works” recently that I hoped it would be the same here. I might do a post on the setup itself at some point.īut to the issue - well, it was exactly as it was back then - I wanted to transfer some pre-built VMWare Fusion virtual machines to it.
Vmware fusion mac ssh nat free#
Still free but nowadays more awesome - there is no longer a fat client - it’s all web client, which makes managing it from OSX a lot easier. This is hooked up to a ReadyNAS with 16tb storage and running VMWare ESXi 6.7.
8-core processor, 128gb RAM, 600gb SDD, 10gb NICs - the works. If the 2012 machine was a beast… this thing is a behemoth. So a few weeks ago, rather than trying to build an ESXi host, I cut to the chase and splashed out on a SuperMicro SuperServer. (Although in fairness, I’m not sure anyone really ever *wants* to do that.) I digress. We use Azure a lot nowadays, but there are still some scenarios where we’d like some on-premise kit such as developing against Sharepoint. That particular ESXi server didn’t last particularly long - no technical issues, it just didn’t turn out to be the thing I wanted.įast forward 6 years, and I found myself in a new situation where having an ESXi host would be useful. In fact, I faced then, moreorless the same problem I was facing a few days ago. Thank you Attachments Screen Shot at 8.57.11 AM.png (79.67 KiB) Viewed 12847 times Vigster Posts: 12 Joined: 10.Way back in 2012, I dabbled with ESXi. Not sure why I cannot get the host only adapter to work using custom network. I also took the same vm and used VMware Fusion and same setup for host only adapter and it worked with no issues. I brought up different Virtual guest and used bridged adapter and did not have any issues. I have not problems logging in through ssh or bring up the webpage the guest linux Server.
Vmware fusion mac ssh nat windows 10#
So I exported this vm and then import on VirtualBox running on windows 10 Machine with the same setup. When I do the ip addr in the linux hosts its ip is 10,10.10.3 and ping 10.10.10.1 it fails from the the Mac host I tried to ssh to the 10.10.10.3 and can't connect. Created custom host only adapter Vboxnet 2Īdded the host only adapter and then chose vboxnet2 and start vm