Fusion TCP address lost after Host sleeps.

[david_navigator]

I have a bit of an odd issue that I don't understand. 
Running Fusion 13.0.1 on my Mac Book Pro (Ventura 13.2.1). Guest is Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Network adaptor configured in bridge mode (and the host also has a static IP address in the same subnet).

All works find until host sleeps. Then when it wakes up the guest is no longer connected to the network (externally it can't be pinged and internally it can't find the network).
Suspending and then unsuspending the guest immediately fixes the issue - but obviously this is a bit of a pain.

Any one any idea what might be happening and how to fix ?

Cheers

David

[Technogeezer]

Having the Mac sleep while a VM is active is known to be problematic. There's no graceful coordination between the Mac going to sleep and the VM having enough time to suspend before before the Mac goes to sleep.

Best practices are either to never let the Mac sleep while a VM is running, or suspend/shut down the VM before the Mac goes to sleep.

A couple of questions, though:

Are VMware Tools installed in the VM?

Is the VM still running after the Mac wakes up?

How are you configuring the network in the VM to obtain an IP address? Manually or with DHCP?

If DHCP, have you tried releasing and renewing the DHCP reservation from within the VM?

[david_navigator]

> Are VMware Tools installed in the VM?

Yes. Though they were installed under VmWare workstation before I moved this guest from a Windows machine to the mac.

> Is the VM still running after the Mac wakes up?

Yes. Everything seems to work as expected, except for the network connection.

> How are you configuring the network in the VM to obtain an IP address? Manually or with DHCP?

Manually.