VMware Fusion - Can't get network adapter to work in Win10

[ascender]

I'm having trouble with what I'm thinking should be a very simple config in VMware Fusion Version 8.5.8 (5824040).

I have a Windows 10 VM on my MBP which I need to connect via direct Ethernet cable to a native Windows 10 laptop for the purpose of sharing information from a third party program.

• I've turned wifi off on my MBP and have connected a USB Ethernet adapter to it.
• I've assigned it a manual IP address of 192.168.1.61, 255.255.255.0 in both macOS and Win10.
• On the Windows 10 laptop I've got its Ethernet adapter assigned 192.168.2.2, 255.255.255.0.

In the VMWare settings, I've tried the network adapter in all the different modes, but none of them give me connectivity to the other machine.

• In macOS I am able to ping the Windows machine ok. In the VM however, its destination host unreachable.
• Similarly I can ping the macOS machine from Windows 10. So its definitely something to do with the config of the VM.

I suspect I'm making a very basic error but for the life of me I can't see it and sitting here staring at it probably isn't helping.

Any ideas please?

Thanks!

 

[jzuena]

The IP address of the laptop isn't in the same subnet as the Mac (with that subnet mask, its address needs to start with 182.168.1.__. It really shouldn't work in macOS either. Are you using bridged mode networking or NAT? If NAT, set the VM up to use DHCP and the macOS host will give it an address. The Windows laptop will see traffic coming from the macOS address. If bridged mode, set the VM up with 192.168.2.61 to match the subnet the laptop is in.

 

[ascender]

Thanks, that makes a lot more sense than pretty much everything else I've read on the subject!

I will try the dhcp approach first.

Thanks.

 

[ascender]

This worked a treat, thanks. Set to NAT mode with DHCP in Windows 10 fixed the issue.

I think what was doing my head in was the DHCP v static IP address thing and the more I stared at it and read a lot of very convoluted explanations, the more I couldn't understand why on earth it wouldn't work.

Thanks again.