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VMWare Workstation 12 Reset Network

You are unable to connect to the internet from inside your Virtual Machine inside your VMWare Workstation 12. There is a lot of documentation that I have found that is focused on a windows host machine but not linux. Follow the steps below to resolve your networking issues.

Turn It Off and On Again

  1. Open VMWare Workstation
  2. Start your Virtual Machine
  3. Try hitting the close button or force close your Virtual Machine

Sometimes a virtual machine will reset it's network when the machine is improperly shut down, if this does not work see Reset Network Settings

Reset Network Settings

  1. Open VMWare Workstation
  2. Go to Virtual Network Editor via one of the options below
  • Toolbar: Edit -> Virtual Network Editor
  • Terminal: sudo vmware-netcfg
  1. Find your broken network setting and remember the settings, try taking a screen shot
  2. Delete the broken network setting
  3. Add a new network setting and copy the settings over from your screen shot
  4. Click save
  5. Start your VM and your network settings should be fixed.
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