Hi
One of our work stations is end of life hardware-wise (runs WinPro 7 32 bit which is fine) but rather than giving my operative a new box to learn I've picked up VM player (VMware-player 5.0.2 - build 10317690 and converter.
Then I've found a new box, (an IBM laptop - X61 running W7 Ultimate with wifi and in a docking station) loaded up a spare Windows 7 licence, loaded player, run converter on the old box and can now "play" the old box as a VM on the new box. VMware tools version 9 is installed.
However, while the new box has internet access (wired in our Windows domain) the old box in the player does not.
The new box shows three connections in /network connections - the LAN connection and to VMware "virtual Ethernet adaptors" - the latter two are set to DHCP - one for wireless and one wired I assume - the new box is a laptop in a docking station.
The old box VM has a bridged connection in VM setting with replicate physical network settings ticked and the wired adaptor showing ticked in the configure adaptors box
The Windows 7 the VM does not connect to the network or the internet.
I've found http://communities.vmware.com/message/321617 which suggests running <vmnetcfg>
But I cannot find a copy of vmnetcfg that works here!
All help welcome