You can move forward setting up Deis by exporting FLEETCTL_TUNNEL
and issuing a make run
like the documentation suggests, but you'll be missing some of the provisioning steps that Deis performs as part of the cloud-init script. You'll likely run into trouble.
The recommended path is to install Vagrant and issue a vagrant up
in the project root to use the Deis project Vagrantfile. This sets up networking and executes the project cloud-init script.
Vagrant should detect that you have VMWare installed and not VirtualBox, and will provision appropriately.