Question.. but first a little background.
We have a corp. network that only allows 1 MAC address per port. We can request that increased to 2, which we have done. On my Macbok Pro that has allowed me to run ONE VM at a time bridged. We purchased a Mac Pro to use for VM work which has 2 NIC's. So far even using a port programmed to allow 2 MAC's does not work bridged. It's the usual symptom, I can ping the host IP and nothing else.
So:
Can VMware Fusion 5.x be assigned one of the Mac Pro NIC's exclusively so we can run 2 VM's each with a public address? If so how? If the interface must be active in the Mac Preference Panel, now you would have 3 MAC addresses and again we are blocked.
In my VM's that were moved over from the laptop even though the settings panel shows all of the interfaces in the Mac Preference Pane, the settings pull-down in the VM window shows only 1 of the 2 NIC's?
How does the VM handle Bridged Auto if you have 2 ethernet and no other network devices active?
At the moment nothing I try will pass packets bridged since moving my VM's to the Mac Pro. I have not yet tried building a fresh one.
All VM's are CentOS 5 or 6.
