Restart VMware Fusion Networking from the Command Line

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Every now and again I run into issues using Vagrant and VMware Fusion togther. Specifically around starting VMNET-DHCP servers. The following commands have done wonders to fix that in a pinch:

sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli --configure
sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli --stop
sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli --start

5 thoughts on “Restart VMware Fusion Networking from the Command Line”

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James Loker-Steele says:

January 26, 2018 at 7:48 am

As and edit on this,
sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –start
sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –stop
sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –configure

as Mac being a unix backend doesn’t read spaces so require the \ for vmware
GS611 says:

July 17, 2018 at 1:10 pm

Looks like James was on a Mac and the double dashes got converted to a single long dash. Here’s the copy and pastable version:

sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –start
sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –stop
sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –configure
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evandrix says:

March 30, 2020 at 9:42 pm

“`
sudo “/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli” –configure
sudo “/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli” –stop
sudo “/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli” –start
“`