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I was having a similar problem and in the process of searching this forum and coming across this thread, I discovered a possible fix. Problem: After upgrading to 7.1, my Windows 7 VM could not... See more...
I was having a similar problem and in the process of searching this forum and coming across this thread, I discovered a possible fix. Problem: After upgrading to 7.1, my Windows 7 VM could not activate the network adapter (Local Area Network/VMWare's virtual Intel ethernet adapter). In Windows, I tried to disable and enable it. No go. Shutting the VM down and opening the Fusion "Settings, Network Adapter" for the VM resulted in the dialog showing all of the adapter options as greyed out. I could click the "Connect Network Adapter" check box on and off to no avail. Also tried: 1) Going to advanced options and removing the Network Adapter. Recreated it, same problem. However, it was then configured to use "Share with my Mac" now as default. (I use bridged mode with my primary Mac Pro ethernet port.) 2) Rebooting the Mac itself. Possible fix: Tinkering around, I decided to "Add Device..." and create a second Network Adapter. Upon doing so, the second Network Adapter settings could be changed and then suddenly the original Network Adapter settings could be as well. I then removed the second Network Adapter and the first was still working. Quit Fusion and re-opened to confirm the settings were still changeable. Booted VM and confirmed network adapter was working. I am not sure why this appeared to work better than removing and re-creating the first adapter but it did. My only other guess is something was happening in Fusion in the background that finally "released" (un-greyed out) the options while I was tinkering. But that would not be expected behavior and how long one would actually have to wait is not clear.