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Build 42757 - Windows XP Pro VM - Ethernet0 will start disconnected

Mar 24, 2007 9:43 AM

chriswong 17 posts since
Sep 27, 2004

The virtual NIC in my XP Pro VM keeps starting disconnected even though it's set to connect at power on. I see a prompt:

VMNet0 The operation completed successfully. Virtual device Ethernet0 will start disconnected.

I've tried uninstalling the driver in the OS, and also tried uninstalling the driver in the OS, then shutting it down and removed/added a new NIC in the VM config, but it still does the same thing. I can just right-click the NIC on the lower right corner of the Workstation window and connect it without a problem, and networking seems fine otherwise...

Re: Build 42757 - Windows XP Pro VM - Ethernet0 will start disconnected Mar 24, 2007 10:54 AM

chriswong 17 posts since
Sep 27, 2004

Actually, this seems to be affecting all 4 of my VMs. It just showed up when I was testing my XP Pro VM after uninstalling Beta 3 and installing RC. It looks like it's a problem with automatically picking the right host NIC to use when I power on a VM.

FYI, I have VMware Workstation 6 RC running on Vista Ultimate 32-bit, with 4 VMs: Vista Biz, XP Pro, CentOS 4.4, and Suse 10.1.

Re: Build 42757 - Windows XP Pro VM - Ethernet0 will start disconnected Apr 3, 2007 6:40 AM

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kevin79 147 posts since
Mar 16, 2005

Are you still experiencing this issue? I have the same problem and I would like to get it fixed.

Re: Build 42757 - Windows XP Pro VM - Ethernet0 will start disconnected Apr 3, 2007 12:48 PM

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chriswong 17 posts since
Sep 27, 2004

Yep, but less often for whatever reason. I dunno what's changed really, but I see this probably 1 out of every 8-10 times I start a VM now...

Re: Build 42757 - Windows XP Pro VM - Ethernet0 will start disconnected Apr 26, 2007 4:54 PM

dmozealous 12 posts since
Jan 23, 2006

I actually get this problem with the following config:

VM RC Build 44426
Host OS: Vista Enterprise
Guest OS: WIN XP

It happens consistently for me. Bummer, Vista is a pain.

Re: Build 42757 - Windows XP Pro VM - Ethernet0 will start disconnected Apr 30, 2007 3:30 AM

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maxxess 17 posts since
Jul 20, 2006

After resuming a suspended XP guest on Vista host (running 44426) I have once or twice experienced this problem. The guest did not show "media disconnected" as appropriate when network is disabled in host-settings so I started trouble shooting VMw DHCP (since I got no NAT IP) before I realized that ethernet adapter was not "connected".

Impossible for me to reproduce this error and it seem to occur very seldom in my setup (x64 Vista host, XP/2003 guests). Maybye it was after converting from vm5 hardware to vm6 hardware (in existing machine) and taking the first snapshot.

Have you upgraded the machines to vm6 hardware? (VM -> upgrade or change version and then install VMw Tools)

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