I had VMWare Workstation 9 working fine on my Windows 7 host system. After upgrading to version 10, though, I have been unable to get NAT networking to work. I'm finding several issues:
- If I do an ipconfig on the host no vmnet adapters show up
- If I go to the Virtual Network Editor and edit the NAT device to Connect a host virtual adapter to this network, it says "Connected" when I check the box, but when I hit Apply or OK the Connected indicator goes away and the box gets unchecked.
- Even when I run the Virtual Network Editor I can't connect the virtual adapter to the network.
- In the VNE I also see that the subnet is not what i want. I tried changing it but once I hit Apply or OK it goes back to what it was when it gets to "Loading network configuration".
- I tried editing the vmnetnat.conf file by hand while the NAT service was down. When I restarted it the vmnet adapters still did not show up.
- I have deleted and reinstalled VMware Workstation
- I also upgraded 10.0.0 to 10.0.2. It didn't help.
- The VMware NAT Service logs success: Using configuration file: C:\ProgramData\VMware\vmnetnat.conf. IP address: 192.168.75.2 Subnet: 255.255.255.0 External IP address: 0.0.0.0 Device: vmnet8. MAC address: 00:50:56:EA:A6:03. Ignoring host MAC address: 00:50:56:C0:00:08.
It looks like an access control issue somewhere but I can't quite track it down. Any suggestions?