Weird, it worked for me. The VM MUST have a bridged adapter with its own IP address on your network to work correctly and pass Appletalk packets. No NAT, don't even think about it or install it. Also, your machine must be using a wired Ethernet interface, wireless anything won't work (sorry). This is a limitation of virtual NICs and VMs in general. When I setup A2SERVER I had some odd behavior, but running the "a2server-setup" script seemed to fix them. Log in as "user1" when doing that, not root.
The Farallon Fix is for Apple IIgs System 6.0.1, it has a bug with Appletalk and "keep alive" traffic, you shouldn't need it on a Mac. By default netatalk in that VM is setup as an Appletalk seed router and assigns a zone name of A2SERVER to your network. This clashes with things like Fastpaths and Gatorboxes which also act as seed routers. You can disable it by typing "netatalk-router-off".
Other than the hiccups I got before running the setup script, so far A2SERVER has been working without a problem. I can see its default shares on both Mac and Apple II, whether its connected via Localtalk or Ethernet. The included Samba sharing take care of serving Windows machines and OS X.
The Farallon Fix is for Apple IIgs System 6.0.1, it has a bug with Appletalk and "keep alive" traffic, you shouldn't need it on a Mac. By default netatalk in that VM is setup as an Appletalk seed router and assigns a zone name of A2SERVER to your network. This clashes with things like Fastpaths and Gatorboxes which also act as seed routers. You can disable it by typing "netatalk-router-off".
Other than the hiccups I got before running the setup script, so far A2SERVER has been working without a problem. I can see its default shares on both Mac and Apple II, whether its connected via Localtalk or Ethernet. The included Samba sharing take care of serving Windows machines and OS X.