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Folk, Hello. Thanks a lot for replying. The download file is VMware-player-12.5.1-4542065. This file doesn't install network adapter for VMs in Windows 10. In my old computer Windows 7, VMplayer 3.0 installed network adapter in Windows 7. That is VMnet1 and VMnet8. I simply configure VMnet8 to enable 2 VMs communicate with each other and host machine and internet. I have copied one more folder of VM Oracle Linux 5 into Windows 10. I need to enable 2 VMs can connect with internet and can communicate with each other. But there is no VMnet1 and VMnet8 in Windows 10 after install VMware Workstation Player 12.5.1. I run the command "ipconfig" in Windows 10 as below: C:\user\MyName> ipconfig Its output: Ethernet adapter Ethernet 2: Media State: Media Disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix: Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection *2: Media State: Media Disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix: Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection: Media State: Media Disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix: Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi: Media State: Media Disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix: domain.actdsltmp Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: As you see the output above, Windows 10 is not the same with Windows 7. There is no VMnet1 and VMnet8 to configure for VMs network. My questions are: 1) The 2 VMs are not created in Windows 10 originally and are copied folder. Does it cause Network Adapter problem ? 2) How to have VMnet1 and VMnet8 come up in Windows 10 Network Adapter so that we can configure the network for 2 VMs ? Thanks in advance.

Hi Tracy, I can confirm that after installing the 12.5.1 update for Workstation Pro that the 7za.exe is now showing as version 16.02. This version is not vulnerable to the issues I mentioned in this thread. Many thanks for your excellent work on having this update include this fix. Have a great day:smileycool:

Check inside the guest using fdisk or gdisk. Both tools will very likely tell you that you have a disk with a size of 20Gb. Probably you will have a 4gb partition /dev/sda1 plus a small swap partition of maybe 200 MB. Either create a new partition using the free space or expand the / - partition.

> can *.vmem not be sync to disk when it is in memory? No mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE" that parameter tells WS not to use a vmem-file that is stored on disk. Instead it allocates that file in RAM + swapfile. When you suspend the VM WS transfers the content of the vmem inside RAM to a permanent file on disk. This will probably uses even more time than you needed without the mainmemfile parameter. To speed up  wakeup of a suspended VM the only thing you ca´n do is to reduce the amount of RAM for the VM. I noticed that in most cases powering down the VM is faster than using Suspend.

Did you really try the batch I recommended ? The name "vmnetbridge" is not a service name as you would find in services.msc for example but you should find it in registry as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VMnetBridge. If vmnetbridge is not present in your installation brdged network would have never worked. So please open a cmd and enter "net start vmnetbridge" You should get a reply like one of these: - access is denied - the service name is invalid - the service has been started successfully - the service is already running If you get "access denied" try again with a cmd launched as administrator Ulli

What I also learned in the process is that if on initial hard disk creation one chooses to pre-allocate the hard disk space, there is no way at a later date to make it smaller again, not even with this snapshot consolidation with the disk manager. In this case, I did still save space (since the snapshots caused the total used space to go way beyond the 40Gb limit and this process was able to bring the total space down to 40 Gb), but I could never go under the 40Gb for this VM. All good stuff to know.

start_vmware.bat ---------------- sc config VMUSBArbService start= demand net start VMUSBArbService sc config VMAuthdService start= demand net start VMAuthdService sc config VMwareHostd start= demand net start VMwareHostd sc config VMnetDHCP start= demand net start VMnetDHCP sc config "VMware NAT Service" start= demand net start "VMware NAT Service" netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" ENABLED netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" ENABLED d: cd VMware start vmware.exe pause What is showing in the command box whilst running as admin: C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMUSBArbService start= demand [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start VMUSBArbService The VMware USB Arbitration Service service is starting. The VMware USB Arbitration Service service was started successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMAuthdService start= demand [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start VMAuthdService The VMware Authorization Service service is starting. The VMware Authorization Service service was started successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMwareHostd start= demand [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start VMwareHostd The VMware Workstation Server service is starting. The VMware Workstation Server service was started successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMnetDHCP start= demand [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start VMnetDHCP The VMware DHCP Service service is starting. The VMware DHCP Service service was started successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config "VMware NAT Service" start= demand [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start "VMware NAT Service" The VMware NAT Service service is starting. The VMware NAT Service service was started successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" ENABLED C:\WINDOWS\system32>netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" ENABLED C:\WINDOWS\system32>d: D:\>cd VMware D:\vmware>start vmware.exe D:\vmware>pause ==================== Then when stopping, I file->exit and then run stop_vmware.bat (as admin) stop_vmware.bat --------------- taskkill /F /IM "vmware.exe"    (note: assume this line can be deleted then) taskkill /F /IM "vmware-tray.exe" net stop VMwareHostd sc config VMwareHostd start= disabled net stop VMUSBArbService sc config VMUSBArbService start= disabled net stop VMAuthdService sc config VMAuthdService start= disabled net stop VMnetDHCP sc config VMnetDHCP start= disabled net stop "VMware NAT Service" sc config "VMware NAT Service" start= disabled netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" DISABLED netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" DISABLED = What is showing in the command box whilst running as admin: C:\WINDOWS\system32>taskkill /F /IM "vmware.exe" ERROR: The process "vmware.exe" not found. C:\WINDOWS\system32>taskkill /F /IM "vmware-tray.exe" SUCCESS: The process "vmware-tray.exe" with PID 7100 has been terminated. C:\WINDOWS\system32>net stop VMwareHostd The VMware Workstation Server service is stopping. A system error has occurred. System error 1067 has occurred. The process terminated unexpectedly. The VMware Workstation Server service was stopped successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMwareHostd start= disabled [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net stop VMUSBArbService The VMware USB Arbitration Service service was stopped successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMUSBArbService start= disabled [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net stop VMAuthdService The VMware Authorization Service service was stopped successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMAuthdService start= disabled [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net stop VMnetDHCP The VMware DHCP Service service is stopping. The VMware DHCP Service service was stopped successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config VMnetDHCP start= disabled [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>net stop "VMware NAT Service" The VMware NAT Service service is stopping. The VMware NAT Service service was stopped successfully. C:\WINDOWS\system32>sc config "VMware NAT Service" start= disabled [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS C:\WINDOWS\system32>netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" DISABLED C:\WINDOWS\system32>netsh interface set interface "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" DISABLED C:\WINDOWS\system32>pause Press any key to continue . . . = any solutions as to net stop VMwareHostd sc config VMwareHostd start= disabled and above error? thanks =

Thanks Andre, I actually had called into support overlapping the time when you answered the question, and you were spot on. In fact I have gotten the Workstation Professional 30 day trial since the Player does NOT have Snapshot functionality, and I have done just what you say - merging to a single disk, works beautifully. I also played with snapshots and believe I have a full understanding of them - cool that you can not only snapshot a turned-off VM, but rather a Live running one and it saves the state perfectly - very very cool.. Marking you as solution, THANKS!

Wil Yes. Network state is replicatded Both guest and host OS is Win7 Enterpise. External NIC settings: Guest NIC is set up with a fixed IP (have to be this address): I have tried several other solutions sugested in other forums as well. F.ex turning off cheecksum offload on the external NIC. There was one solution i wanted to try (Re: Bridged network stops working after sleep/hibernate on Vista Create a batch file with the following commeands net stop vmnetbridge net start vmnetbridge Run as Administrator I'm however not able to to this as I do not have a service running called "vmnetbridge"

Hi, You also did check the 'replicate network state' checkbox like I said? That was a required step in order for vmware to know that the cable is unplugged and plugged back in. You also don't mention the guest OS you are using as that might be a factor as well. Normally you can request a new IP from the guest OS. In Windows from a DOS box (can put in a batch file if needed)   ipconfig /release   ipconfig /renew -- Wil