How to setup your VMWare Fusion images to use static IP addresses on Mac OS X
1. Determine the MAC address of your guest machine
Let's say you have a guest machine with the name nrel-dev-centso6 and you keep your guest machine images in ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines/. To determine the MAC address for this VM, you can run:
cat ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines/nrel-dev-centos6.vmwarevm/*.vmx | grep ethernet0.generatedAddress