Assigning static ip addresses in VMWare Fusion

Posted on April 18, 2012  •  1 minutes  • 94 words

I’m using VMWare Fusion on my laptop, even though I regret not being able to use the power of Vagrant with VirtualBox, the combination with puppet allows me to do reach something similar.

However latest releases of Fusion seemed to have dropped the boot.sh which allowed you to restart your vm’s dhcp daemon.

Apparently the new approach is:

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/services.sh --stop
/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/services.sh --start

and yes, just a shell script to restart your dhcpd or sending a signal would have been better, but the extensions need to be loaded in a certain order apparently.