How can I access a VPN inside a VMWare Fusion VM - virtual-machine

Question

I have a VPN connection in MacOS BigSur but I can't access it inside a Linux VM running under VMWare Fusion V12.1.2.

Answer 1

The issue has been fixed in V12.2.0 VMWare Fusion 12.2.0 Release Notes
The solution is to manually create the VPN tunnel and link it to the VM as there are multiple commands involved and the IP Address can change I created the following script to execute the required commands.
#!/bin/bash
function ask_yes_or_no() {
read -p "$1 ([y]es or [N]o): "
case $(echo $REPLY | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]') in
y|yes) echo "yes" ;;
*) echo "no" ;;
esac
}
currNatRules=$(sudo pfctl -a com.apple.internet-sharing/shared_v4 -s nat 2>/dev/null)
if test -z "$currNatRules"
then
echo -e "\nThere are currently no NAT rules loaded\n"
exit 0
fi
utunCheck=$(echo $currNatRules | grep utun)
if test -n "$utunCheck"
then
echo -e "\nIt looks like the VPN tunnel utun2 has already been created"
echo -e "\n$currNatRules\n"
if [[ "no" == $(ask_yes_or_no "Do you want to continue?") ]]
then
echo -e "\nExiting\n"
exit 0
fi
fi
natCIDR=$(echo $currNatRules | grep en | grep nat | cut -d\ -f 6)
if test -z "$natCIDR"
then
echo -e "\nCannot extract the NAT CIDR from:"
echo -e "\n$currNatRules\n"
exit 0
fi
interface=$(route get 10/8 | grep interface | cut -d\ -f 4)
echo -e "\nNAT CIDR=$natCIDR Interface=$interface\n"
newRule="nat on ${interface} inet from ${natCIDR} to any -> (${interface}) extfilter ei"
echo -e "\nAdding new rule: $newRule\n"
configFile="fixnat_rules.conf"
[[ -d $configFile ]] && rm $configFile
echo "$currNatRules" > $configFile
echo "$newRule" >> $configFile
sudo pfctl -a com.apple.internet-sharing/shared_v4 -N -f ${configFile} 2>/dev/null
echo -e "\nConfig update applied\n"
sudo pfctl -a com.apple.internet-sharing/shared_v4 -s nat 2>/dev/null
echo -e "\n"
exit 0