Mac OSX: Connect from terminal to CentOS virtual machine - VMWare Fusion

1. Make sure proper network adapter is set up on CentOS Virtual Machine.

systemctl status network.service
 

If not, please make sure following Network Adapter setting is set up for CentOS VM:

 

After setting up the above, please issue a network restart:

service network restart


 
2. Get private IP of the CentOS VM to us for connecting:

ifconfig

 

In the picture above, private IP is 172.16.1.128


3. Open Mac OS Terminal and ssh to the CentOS VM instance:

ssh user@172.16.1.128

4. That's it. You are now connected.