How to configure network interfaces on VM Player 4.x for Windows 7

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VM machine is very useful when you are testing some s/w or systems. Network connectivity should be configured within VM machine, in this case VM Player 4.0. Some reasons, I always stuck on network connectivity issue. ESXi has a called virtual switch that is allowing us at least to door to troubleshoot an issue. How about VM Player 4.0 for windows? Yes it does.

Unfortunately, a network tool needs to be installed separately.

Here is the step

1. Open a DOS windows and go where VMware-player-4.x.x-yyy.exe is located.

2. Execute below command.

VMware-player-4.x.x.*.exe -e c:\VMtool

 

 

 

 

3. Find a file, “network.cab”, and extract it.

 

4. Below extracted files must copy to VM Player 4.x folder (Typically “C:\Program Files(x86)\VMware\VMware Player\”.)

vmnetcfg.exe

vmnetmgr.dll

vmnetui.dll

vnetsniffer.exe

vnetstats.exe

5. Execute “vmnetcfg.exe”

 

 

 

6. Check VMnet0 that will have more time to play with.