Product: VMware Player 5.0.0 build-812388
Host OS: Win7 64-bit, SP1
Guest OS: Xubuntu 12.04, 64-bit
After upgrading VMware Player from 4.x to 5.0, whenever I resume the Xubuntu 12.04 VM from a suspended state, the network interface is broken. If I reboot the guest OS the network interface is still broken.
If I reboot the host OS (or restart the VMware DHCP and NAT services on the Win7 host) and then reboot the guest OS, the network interface in the guest OS will work.
I have tried rebooting (or restarting NAT/DHCP services) in the host OS, resuming the VM, then bringing networking down/up in the guest OS (no guest reboot), but the network interface still will not work. The guest OS must be rebooted after rebooting the host or restarting VMware NAT & DHCP on the host.
I had a similar problem under Player 4.x maybe once in 50-70 suspend/resumes. Thus far with Player 5.0 it happens EVERY time I suspen/resume the VM.
Guest OS WMware tools were upgraded to Player 5.0 version of tools after upgradint Player. I have also susequently run 'vmware-config-tools.pl' to ensure they were installed and running.
It appears that the DHCP and/or NAT services on the host are malfunctioning or dying and the Player cannot recover from suspend after this happens.
As I said, this VM seemed to work reliably (network fail once in 50-70 suspends) under Player 4.x.
Any thoughts?
Dave L.