No network connection on guest

[yby]

Hello,

My Win7 guest can't connect to the network, it complains about a unpluged ethernet cable. No network problem on host. It used to work until I upgraded the host from Win8 to 8.1 (not sure if that's the reason). Pinging localhost on the guest works OK. Any ideas?

TY

System config:

     Host: Windows 8.1/64bit

     Guest: Windows 7/64bit

     VMware player version 6.0.0 build-1295980

Message was edited by: Maish Changed typo in subject..

[bostonts · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I just had exactly the same issue, after trying some troubleshooting I downloaded the 'VMware Player' Installer and ran the 'repair' option which has cured the problem.

For the record I had allowed the automatic option to upgrade to VMware Player 6 and had today upgraded Windows 8 to 8.1, I'm not sure which caused the problem.

P

[yby]

It worked for me too. TYVM.

[mikeasmith]

Just upgraded to windows 8.1 (64bit) from windows 8 (64bit) and also experienced the complete loss of network on all virtual machines (5 of them).

The suggestion to download the version of VMware player and launch it and select "Repair" fixed the issue. The only challenge was finding the right

version of player - but even that wasn't much of a challenge.

[Prolog]

I have the same problem in linux. How do you solve?
I tried reinstalling from scratch but did not solve the problem.
The version of the operating system ': 12.0.4 LTS 64bit v.3. Vmplayer 6.0.1 build - 1379776.

The problem occurs with all virtual machines, any installed operating system.

To perform the repair installation in ubuntu VMPlayer you should always reinstall the product?

[jackee1234]

I use the approach here to solve my problem:

My Technical Blog: VMWare Internet Connection Problem