I installed VMware workstation (9.0) on my Windows 7 PC, and installed Ubuntu 12.04. I got everything else working except that I cannot seem to get networking going in the ubuntu box. In the VMware settings, I tried both NAT and Bridged connections (with "Replicate physical networking connection state" and without it).
My Windows PC's ifconfig looks like this:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : something.net
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::7598:cf46:98b:5b
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.155.10.214
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.155.8.1
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::e870:d3cf:21b9:1
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.237.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::e0a0:d219:ed1b:1
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.126.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
And the ifconfig (linux) looks like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:b6:6a:8d
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb6:6a8d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:52484 (52.4 KB) TX bytes:223515 (223.5 KB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:23884 (23.8 KB) TX bytes:23884 (23.8 KB)
My /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Regards Deepak