Lume: VM network seems to be using a broken NAT implementation

[CamJN]

When I create a macOS vm (haven't tried a linux vm) the network connection in the guest is to a 192.168.64.* network, which is apparently a kind of NAT on my host, because it's not the ip range of my LAN. Within the guest, the DNS server is set to 192.168.64.1 which I believe refers to the host, however it doesn't seem to actually work, ie lume doesn't seem to be running a dns server or forwarding the dns requests properly, as I don't have working DNS in the guest until I change the DNS to a working ip like 1.1.1.1 or my LAN's dns server.

[jamesmurdza]

Hi @CamJN,

Are you saying that DNS is not resolving at all for you on the guest? So, for example, you can't open Safari and access google.com?

[CamJN]

From the creation of the guest vm until i change the dns to another ip, yes: no DNS works at all.

[jamesmurdza]

@CamJN Can you confirm the below—to put this into code?

dig google.com        # shows "connection timed out; no servers could be reached"
sudo networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 1.1.1.1  # set DNS to Cloudflare
dig google.com        # shows "ANSWER SECTION" with google.com IP addresses

[CamJN]

Close, I had to change the network interface name as there is no Wi-Fi connection in the guest, the network connection in the guest always appears as Ethernet.

Last login: Sat Oct 18 20:52:53 on console
camden@Camdens-Virtual-Machine ~ % dig google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
camden@Camdens-Virtual-Machine ~ % sudo networksetup -setdnsservers Ethernet 1.1.1.1
Password:
camden@Camdens-Virtual-Machine ~ % dig google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23899
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; OPT=15: 00 03 ("..")
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com.                    IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com.             0       IN      A       142.250.73.110

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Oct 18 20:54:29 MDT 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 61

camden@Camdens-Virtual-Machine ~ %