
VMware Fusion Setup
Huge thanks to James Bowling @vSential for documenting the whole Fusion 4 setup process
and Damian Karlson @sixfootdad for updating for Fusion 5 Professional.
The Fusion build is designed to work with a host with 8GB of RAM and VMware Fusion
version 4.0 or later. The host operating system must be 64bit and all the CPU virtualization
features must be enabled in the BIOS in order to be able to run the 64bit VMs. Placing the lab
files on a fast disk and having a host with more RAM will make the lab run faster.
If you have Fusion 5 professional you can use its network editor, skip the Uber Network
Fuser instructions below and follow the Fusion 5 Professional procedure.
Fusion 4 and 5 (not Professional) - Configure Lab Network
Unlike the VMware Workstation setup, configuring the network is not available within the
VMware Fusion 4 settings. To create the required network we will open Nick Weaver’s
UBER Network Fuser (UNF), as seen here:
Make sure that you have VMware Fusion stopped as you will not be able to make any
changes to anything within UNF. Once you have UNF open select the Networks section
where you will be presented with a list of two networks, Default Host Only and Default NAT.
Click on the ‘+’ to add a new network. Change the name of the network to VMnet3 and hit
enter. One thing you will notice is that the subnet has been selected at random. Don’t
worry…this is by design. We will fix this in a minute. Before we do that, you will want to set
DHCP and NAT to off, then set Virtual Adapter to on, like so:
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