VMWare Fusion Bridged Network Problem

Had a problem today starting a VM that used a bridged network connection, when starting the VM I got this message;

“The network bridge device on /dev/vmnet0 is not running”

The night before I’d been using a VPN connection from the VM and paused it before shutting down, today, plugged into a different subnet and then fired up this VM and the problem occurred.

The solution I found that works is to run this command from Terminal;

sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh --restart

Thanks to another WordPresser here for the fix

I’m all Mac’d Up

I’ve had a new Macbook for a few weeks now and I’ve got to say I’m a total convert, and I’m especially loving  expose and spaces.

I’m using it for all my dev work as well, with the help of VMWare Fusion, I doubt I’ll ever buy an MS host  machine again. Most surprising was, I took a VM of my Vista laptop, dumped it on to the Mac, after running it up and getting the driver reinstallation bit over with, it seems to run quite a bit faster, the UI is definity more snappy. Having said that, obviously Vista in the VM doesn’t run Aero but even so.

Now, in our office of 10 guys, there’s only 2 who haven’t converted to Mac.

Go get a Mac, you know i makes sense.