I don't have a problem between vmware and macosx. There are menu buttons in vmware when I start the virtual machine, at least in windows, for connecting/disconnecting various drivers. I have one braillelite that I allow to connect when I access windows an another that stays disconnected so I can use the terminal. I should then be able to install espeak and/or brltty by the terminal. But I am still a little confused about how I access the dhcp database; do you mean one on the macos end?
