VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines

mcfdoesdev

That's super weird.

Aurornis

Classic GitHub issue thread: Someone shows up and tries to explain it’s not a bug and never could have worked. Everyone else points out that it does work on other Mac hardware. Person doubles down and tries to claim that the bug was that it ever worked, and not working is the correct behavior. New Mac OS beta release fixes the bug and makes it work. Nothing related to the repo was changed.

TheqO

The M5 Pro and M5 Max support Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 via Apple's N1 wireless networking chip, while the base M5 supports Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M5

billti

I couldn't get bridged networking to work with my M5 machine and VMs running on Parallels. This thread here would seem to indicate it's a known issue (with no updates or resolution :/ ) - https://forum.parallels.com/threads/m5-macbook-air-windows-1...

juancn

I love when things work out in the end! (issue is fixed in the latest MacOS 26 and 27 betas)

broknbottle

Without looking too deep, I bet their dext wasn’t exposing necessary configuration. I’ve seen this with other third party network hardware and dext, where it was missing certain configuration for bridging to work

whatever1

M5 networking stack is a mess. A lot of corporate deployments had to wait for Apple to patch up things