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VMware Fusion Setup
Huge thanks to James Bowling @vSential for documenting the whole Fusion setup process.
The Fusion build is designed to work with a host with 8GB of RAM and VMware Fusion version 4.0. 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.
The other requirement is that the Lab network be configured. Unlike the VMware Workstation setup,
configuring the network is not available within the VMware Fusion 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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