`coal-mac-vmware-setup` expects "networking" to already exist

[chudley]

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:

richard ~/Downloads
$ sudo bash coal-mac-vmware-setup
Password:
Admin network:    network="10.99.99.0", mac ip="10.99.99.254", netmask="255.255.255.0"
External network: network="10.88.88.0", mac ip="10.88.88.1", netmask="255.255.255.0"
Setup VMWare networking: admin network 10.99.99.0, external network 10.88.88.0
cat: networking: No such file or directory

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:

richard ~/Downloads
$ ls -alh /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel   160B 21 Sep 08:36 .
drwxr-xr-x  47 root  wheel   1.5K 21 Sep 09:17 ..
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    31B 21 Sep 08:35 lastLocationUsed
...
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel   320B 21 Sep 08:35 thnuclnt

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:

richard ~/Downloads
$ ls -alh /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel   224B 21 Sep 09:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  47 root  wheel   1.5K 21 Sep 09:17 ..
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    31B 21 Sep 09:29 lastLocationUsed
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    12B 21 Sep 09:29 networking
drwxrwxrwx   3 root  wheel    96B 21 Sep 09:29 networking.lck
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel   320B 21 Sep 09:29 thnuclnt

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?

[rmustacc]

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.