With Fusion Pro, you can enable jumbo frames for built-in networks.

Jumbo frames let you send larger frames out onto the physical network. For built-in networks, jumbo frames can be configured in the Share with my Mac and Private to my Mac tabs.

Verify that you have a Fusion Pro license.

Verify that you know the administrator password.

on MacOS Big Sur hosts, the jumbo frame feature is not available for built-in NAT and private networks. Only bridged networking is supported when jumbo frame is enabled on the host.

1

Select VMware Fusion > Preferences and click Network.

2

Click the lock icon, enter the administrator password, and click OK.

3

Select Share with my Mac.

4

Select Custom from the MTU drop-down menu and enter a value between 72 and 9194 bytes in the text box and Click Apply.

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Select Private to my Mac.

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Select Custom from the MTU drop-down menu and enter a value between 72 bytes and 9194 bytes in the text box and Click Apply.

Jumbo frame is enabled for built-in networks.

Note

To enable jumbo frames on Mac OS Big Sur host, the network adapter must support jumbo frames. To enable this feature perform the following steps:

1

Navigate to System Preferences > Network > Advanced > Hardware.

2

Change Configure to Manually and choose Jumbo (9000) in the MTU drop-down.