VMware error with networking
If you are facing networking issues when opening or running a vmware Virtual Machine it could be due to Network Adapter settings. The Virtual Machine opens up fine however there is no network connectivity between this VM (the guest OS) and Host machine. The networking for the Host machine is fine and it can connect to the local LAN or internet. Now if this is the case, then one needs to investigate the guest Virtual Machine's Network Adapter. aa Above figure shows the current Network Adapter settings for guest VM. This shows that the guest VM is connected to the Host machine via Bridged Network Adapter. What this means is that the guest Virtual Machine is now accessing the Local network directly - of course it can only do that by sharing the Host machine's network adapter. Hence, it can obtain its own independent IP address from the Local network if the Local network has DHCP enabled. So the guest VM will appear as another machine on the subnet as shown in below fig