The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/kermit1198 on 2025-10-14 00:36:11+00:00.

I have been using Mullvad for years as it was easier than rolling my own VPN on a micro AWS server to test how stuff appears from different regions. I use it on my Windows laptop along with VMWare workstation.

It seems that there is no way to get VMWare’s networking to route through a Wireguard VPN, allegedly because Wireguard is at layer 3 rather than at layer 2 and VMWare networking can’t bind to the device properly.

I often work from cafes and random hotels, so whilst I could take a hardware firewall / router with me for connecting to wireguard, it is one more failure point, and more effort than either rolling my own openvpn server or finding another provider.

Did anyone else have luck with this, (perhaps similar setups are not uncommon) or is it a case of don’t renew and find another provider?