up and running within minutes. as described, minimal Debian with gnome2. networking worked too. very impressive example of having Debian working environment (with desktop) in such a short time.

I installed this appliance, but I can't make work its networking feature.

I changed the /etc/networking file but nothing

I am attaching my current /etc/networking file, that I think is the default, which also does not work

This is an excellent work. This was my first experience with VMWare and I am flattered..... kudos to the work.....

The following are some of the things I had to tailor..... Hope this helps.......

1) Problem: The mouse scrool wheel does not work.
Solution:
* Login as root user.
* vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
* Search for "Configured Mouse"
* Change it to look like:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

2) Problem: The US keyboard doesn't work and have dead keys which stops from typing chars like " ' ~ `
* Login as root user.
* vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
* Search for "Generic Keyboard"
* Change it to look like:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
* Also in the terminal type the command "setxkbmap us"

3) Problem: Network doesn't work
Solution: No fixed solution. I did the following a couple of time and it started working
* vmware-config-tools.pl
* /etc/init.d/networking stop
* rmmod pcnet32
* rmmod vmxnet
* depmod -a
* modprobe vmxnet
* /etc/init.d/networking start
After it starts working i always close the VMPlayer and never shutdown....