VMware Fusion and MAC routing

I have VMware Fusion installed on my macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 (20D80)

I need to route all Mac traffic through one of the virtual machines connected to vmnet1

How do I change routing table on Mac because each time I do this after reboot my config is gone

Thanks

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on May 15, 2021 5:30 AM

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Loner T

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May 15, 2021 11:19 AM in response to rafnizp

macOS on the Mac is the Host OS, and a VM is a Guest OS. Are you asking if Mac's network traffic can be 'forced' through vmnet1 to your router gateway? If yes, please describe exactly what you want to achieve with such behavior. What should macOS do, if you have shutdown the VM. Here is the Network settings UI for VMware.

Give this, I have the bridged connection as

ifconfig vmnet1 

vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

	ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 

	inet 192.168.12.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.12.255

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