Saturday, December 20, 2014

windows 7 - Do I really need to reboot my host machine to restore net' connectivity to my VMware machines?


I'm running VMware Workstation 6.54 on a Windows 7 host (64-bit). Whenever the host loses network connectivity the VMs never get their connection back until I reboot the machine (which I have to do right after I finish writing this). I've tried restarting the "relevant" services (like VMware Nat Service) but only a hard reboot works for me. Does this issue sound familiar?


Answer



I've had some network "goofyness" with VMware Workstation 7 on Win7x64 but haven't ever had to resort to a reboot.


At the bottom right of the client window are those little status icons. I just right-click on the network icon and select "disconnect." I wait a couple seconds and reconnect it and that seems to get the client back on track.


See if that works for you?


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