I upgraded to 2.0.2 and CentOS 5.4 (in that order) about 2 weeks ago. Only thing I had to do to get it working was to replace vmnet.tar with a copy I got on this forum. Everything worked fine in daily use until the end of this week. No new updates from CentOS in that time. Now I'm getting the same behavior complained of here. Some time ago I began thinking about alternatives to VMware to host the Windows XP VM that's sitting on my work laptop. At this point the choices are 1) dump virtualization entirely and run Windows on the bare metal; 2) go to a VMware alternative. The whole downgrade kludge on kludge route isn't really an option because then I'm going off the reservation vis a vis security updates, etc. Always found it incredible that commercial vendors think we're going to accept running one rev back on our O/S platforms so they can fully amortize previous investments. This isn't just a Linux thing, by the way, the same nonsense happens for every platform. Anyway, if I have to I'll make this work on QEMU. I'm done coddling these vendors.
