Open chudley opened 6 years ago
On 9/21/18 1:40 , Richard Bradley wrote:
When installing VMware Fustion for the first time I opted not to create a VM, so perhaps this "networking" file is only created if we've created a VM in the past?
It could be, or that the default has changed substantially since this was written for a much older version of Fusion. We should probably figure out how to handle the case where it doesn't exist.
I followed the instructions in the README to get CoaL running on VMware. I installed VMware Fusion 8 (8.5.3) on a new machine (macOS 10.13.3) that has never hosted any VMs in the past.
When running the
coal-mac-vmware-setup
tool, I saw the following:Checking out the script, it seems that we use
cd
to "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/" and look for "./networking" in that directory, but it didn't exist for me:I headed over to the VMware GUI and created an empty Solaris 10 VM, and after clicking through the wizard (ending up at the console for that VM), I could see that I now had a "networking" file:
I deleted the test VM and ran
coal-mac-vmware-setup
, which then worked.When installing VMware Fustion for the first time I opted not to create a VM, so perhaps this "networking" file is only created if we've created a VM in the past?