As I just also said on the other thread, I am marking this as
[SOLVED] because the
real problem here is that "VMWare Fusion
non-Pro" is a brain-dead horse. It doesn't
have(!) many of the fundamental features that you need ... such as specifying the IP-address of a network adapter such that the host will create a
route for it.
VMWare wants you to pay them more money.
Oracle's VirtualBox, which BTW does not cost any money at all, does not.