During the 3 hour quest, I couldn't find a .vmx file or "Virtual Machines" folder anywhere on my system, in Vista or OSX. I used Spotlight to search for "Virtual", .vmx, and a number of other files and folders that were mentioned in a number of solutions without success. Since spotlight couldn't find the files or folders, I assumed they didn't exist (I'm new to the Mac world, thus the reason I'm installing Vmware Fusion so I can still run some Windows apps on my Macbook). One thread said the vmx files were in the Users/documents folder, but when I browsed to that location there were no files or folders related to VMware fusion. I reasoned that since the files and folders didn't exist on my computer, but the virutal machines ran fine... that people were responding with solutions that worked for an older version of Fusion.

I FINALLY found a thread that specifically listed the location as "/Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/. So once again, I searched using Spotlight and found nothing. Even though I trusted Spotlight, I browsed to the folder... and voila!, there were the files and folders I needed.

Curiously, spotlight preferences were set to include all file types and folders, so the query should have at least found the folder. Even though I knew the folder existed, Spotlight searches come up empty. Through another extensive search, I found a way to tell spotlight to display system files (which was not available option in the Spotlight preferences panel), and BAM!, there they were. I also found a freeware search program called "EasyFind", and it was able to find the "Virtual Machines" folder on the first try.

Hopefully someone else that stuggles as I did will find this thread and save themselves some time and trouble.

Adding this to the Boot Camp partition VMX file fixed the problem: ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"