I have 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 (happened with prior releases, too) installed as a guest OS in VMware Player 5.0 on a 64-bit Windows 7 host. The guest has a NAT interface configured. The host is a laptop and I frequently put it to sleep for the commute to/from the office. Every time I put the laptop to sleep with the guest running, when I wake the laptop from sleep, the NAT NIC is assigned a new NAT IP.
How can I get a consistent address assigned?
Can I configure the VMware Player DHCP server on the NAT subnet? Say to do static DHCP?
Is there a way to know what pool is available to the NAT DHCP server so I could assign a static IP address to the guest that would be safe from collisions?
Thanks.