Zimbra appliance on VMWare fusion for Mac

[opus_az]

Brand new to VMWare Fusion for Mac, rPath, and Zimbra.

Downloaded and extracted the Zimbra appliance then copied the expanded directory to the VMWare Virtual Machines directory. Now I can open the vmx file from VMWare.

So far so good, maybe. I get a few failures during boot, regarding ethernet.

Logged on as user:root password: (blank)

At the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, now what? My goal is to experiment with Zimbra to see if it's a viable solution for our email system.

Also, the line: please use a web browser from another system to navigate to:, is blank.

[gmsmith]

Sounds like the VM didn't pick up an IP address from DHCP...is DHCP enabled on your network? How is the networking setup for that VM?

[opus_az]

OK, that makes sense. I was expecting VMWare to issue the addressing to the virtual machine. I don't have DHCP here at home. I'll wait until I get to the office to try again.