Hi,
I have installed VMWare Workstation 9 on Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit. The installation went successfully however no matter what I try, vmnetcfg will not create the VMNet1 or any other adapters in Windows 7. I am not talking about any VMs, but the installation should create VMNet1/8 under my host OS. I need these to be able to communicate between my host (Win7) and the virtual machines (CP, F5 etc). I previsouly had VMWare Player installed and this worked normally ie VMNet1/8 were created on my host. VMware Player was uninstalled before VMWare Workstation was installed. I have tried uninstalling Workstation and re-installing, repairing, rebooting etc but nothing works.
The option to "Connect a host virtual adapter to this network" appears in "Virtual Network Editor", when I select it, click OK/Apply, it says updating VMNet1 etc, but no adapter is created on my Windows 7 host and when i go back into "Virtual Network Editor" the option is de-selected. There are no error messages on screen to indicate why it was not created and the windows event viewer System log only shows "Driver Management concluded the process to install driver FileRepository\netadapter.inf_amd64_neutral_016f36b04570fa43\netadapter.inf for Device Instance ID ROOT\VMWARE\0000 with the following status: 0x5aa.". The system error code equates to "ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES 1450 (0x5AA) Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service." I am admin of my machine but running as admin etc makes no difference.
Google yeilds nothing. Colleagues don't have a similar issue. I had Virtual Box also installed which I uninstalled, the uninstalled workstation and reinstalled but I still have the same issue.
If anyone has seen a similar issue some points would be appreciated as Workstation is useless if I can't talk to my VMs to configure them.
Cheers - David