I've had a setup working for some time with Catalina guests running under VMWare Fusion. Upgraded the machines (6 Mac Minis) to the latest 10.15.5 Supplemental Update and two of the machine will not run the guest any more.
Steps
- Guest is started via vagrant (using macinbox configuration) and a provisioning script
- Guest starts up and eventually gets an IP address and vagrant moves to waiting on SSH to start provisioning
- At some point in the above sequence the route to the vmnet8 network is dropped from the routing table and the local NAT IP is no longer reachable, resulting in a failed SSH.
- Ping and SSH also fail via local tools and traceroute shows a sequence off box (i.e. following original routing to Internet)
Other observations:
- DHCP is issued to guest via vmnet DHCP but takes time (appears unsurprisingly related to OS boot time)
- The four machines that continue to work appear to correctly show vmnet1 and vmnet8 in local routing table of host
Not clear if this is a timeout or crash of the NAT network manager. Node is still active and can be accessed through UI. Nothing shown in vnetlib log file.
How can one enable debugging for networking in VMWare Fusion for Mac?