All virtual machine lost network connection

[Ji8my]

All of my virtual machines lost network connection. Tried everything i can, every method i can find on the internet. Reboot the host, reboot the vm, reinstall the vmware, reset the network, switch to host only or share or NAT, whatever the ideas anyone ever mentioned. All vmware services works, and are set to autostart. Nothing happens, still no network connection.

Host: Windows 11

Vmware: 17 Pro

VMs: Ubuntu 18,20,22

ifconfig can only detect the local network:

docker0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255

        ether 02:42:da:a7:77:99  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536

        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0

        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>

        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)

        RX packets 5757  bytes 409528 (409.5 KB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 5757  bytes 409528 (409.5 KB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Please help, i beg you.

[cynar]

FWIW, I had an "incident" on Windows 11, where the Fedora Linux guest would no longer be provisioned via DHCP - and I am not aware of me having made any changes to the network configuration, neither on the host, nor on the guest.

I could afford to install a new VM - and that new VM has working networking. I moved all data (couple of GB) via the host, via shared folders, via `tar acvf mydata.tar.zst mydata/`.

I have no idea whether this is in any way related to your issue - just mentioning it for the sake of having said it.