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Hello everyone, Sorry if this is a newb question, but I've been struggling to get some of my virtual machines to connect. I'll try and keep this short and easy to read, but give you the information you probably need. So, I recently got a 2020 Macbook Pro, on clearance from the store where I work. I needed a Mac for other reasons, but I still want to play some games. They're old games, so I thought that a VM would be fine - and after looking around, VMWare Fusion seemed perfect. VMWare Fusion seems to work fine. I've installed a few VMs, and it's mostly gone okay. However, some of the machines just won't connect to the internet. I had put Windows XP on, for the games, and I just can't get it to connect to the internet at all. I wondered if it was because XP is old, so I tried putting Vista on - and again, nothing. I know it's not an inherent problem with VMWare, because I put Lubuntu and Ubuntu on and both worked fine. I have tried all of the fixes I can think of. So, I have: Tried all the setting on VMWare's Network Adaptor; Rebooted several times (both the VMs and the host machine); Tried the 'Connect helper' tools within the VMs themselves; Tried a sudo command in the Mac terminal, that I found on another site; Went into the .vmx file inside the Vista package and checked the Ethernet setting - which apparently is what I want (it's set to E=1000). I can give more detail on any of that, but I'll be honest - I've run out of ideas. I'm a bit of a newb at this stuff, and hoping to learn more about computers - that's actually one reason for downloading an Ubuntu, so I can mess around with and learn what I'm doing. But it doesn't help me get those old games up and running. They both need XP, but Vista would probably work too. I know that VMs can connect to the Internet because Ubuntu has. So how do I get either/both of them to connect as well? Sorry if the solution is really obvious. Thanks for reading.