Networking on Fusion 5 stopped working on my Virtual windows 8 PC

[pkellner]

Up until yesterday, my networking was working fine on my vm (vmx file below).  I've tried several things of which none work.

I have tried:

1: tried private network, bridge (set to default no which is NAT I believe)

2: installed the latest update which showed up today

Any suggestions? I'm really stuck.  any way to have vmware recreate the network connection? could it be a setting that went bad in my windows 8?  I tried removing and readding my windows 8 network with no luck also.

cd /Users/pkellner/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows8x64R.vmwarevm

Last login: Sat Nov 10 11:48:23 on ttys000

peters-retina:~ pkellner$ cd /Users/pkellner/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows8x64R.vmwarevm

peters-retina:Windows8x64R.vmwarevm pkellner$ ls -l

total 387982824

sharedFolder1.present = "TRUE"

sharedFolder1.enabled = "TRUE"

sharedFolder1.readAccess = "TRUE"

sharedFolder1.writeAccess = "TRUE"

sharedFolder1.hostPath = "/Users/pkellner/Dropbox"

sharedFolder1.guestName = "Dropbox"

sharedFolder1.expiration = "never"

sharedFolder1.shareTags = ""

hgfs.redirectShellFolder1.name = "downloads"

hgfs.redirectShellFolder1.enabled = "TRUE"

sharedFolder2.present = "TRUE"

sharedFolder2.enabled = "TRUE"

sharedFolder2.readAccess = "TRUE"

sharedFolder2.writeAccess = "TRUE"

sharedFolder2.hostPath = "/Users/pkellner/Documents"

sharedFolder2.guestName = "Documents"

sharedFolder2.expiration = "never"

sharedFolder2.shareTags = "auto,documents"

gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "TRUE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

ethernet0.addressType = "static"

ethernet0.address = "00:50:56:33:F7:BE"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

sharedFolder3.present = "FALSE"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

usb:0.present = "TRUE"

usb:0.deviceType = "hid"

usb:0.port = "0"

usb:0.parent = "-1"

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[avanish321]

Reinstall vmware tools.

1) Log into windows 8 and uninstall vmware tools from the list of programs.

2) Restart guest os

3) Once logged into guest, install vmware tools from the virtual machine menu.

If issue persists, check the status of network adapter in device manager.