The situation is this. I have a cable connection. All 4 computers in the house use Wi-Fi to communicate with the modem. None of the computers has a problem connecting to the internet. My computer operates on Win 7 and works perfectly when connected to the internet. When I Click on the VM icon my VM home page opens. I then open a guest OS. It makes no difference what OS. Currently I have , DOS5, XP, Vista Ultimate, Win 7 Utimate,(upgraded from the Vista original) Win 7 Ultimate Clean install. I power on any Guest OS I place my mouse over the icon indicating my internet connection. A note balloon appears saying " connect" ( disconnect from Host) as soon as I click to disconnect from Host, Both OS's (Host and Guest) are frozen. So I cannot verify my OS authentication Product with Microsoft. Cosequently I can't use any OS because the OS is not verified within the time frame allowed to be registered with Microsoft.
Has anybody else struck this problem and if so how do you rectify it. I've installed all the correct drivers for the internet modem connection on the guest OS identical to the Host OS. So why is it incompatible on all Guest OS's. I normally don't have to adjust any thing on my internet connection, so words like DHCP settings etc. are meaningless to me.
I am using VMWare Workstation V6.5.3 and also the latest VM tools. I am not a computer geek, just trying to learn how to do things using Virtual systems. But without the internet, it's useless.
