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Since newest kernels was released (like 2.6.21 and above, AFAIR), all VMware users were threatened with broken networking in their virtual machines. In fact, that was a reason why I did not make any updates to my computer for quite a long time, as I use Windows-in-a-box a lot at work. However, I have finally found a minute to sort the problem out.

The cure was lying wide open in VMware’s community forum. I’ll go straight into the point, so if you’re interested in details, please refer to the relevant forum topic. All you need to do is to download vmnet module patch and replace the existing one in following directory:

/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source

And then run vmnet-config.pl as usual. And that’s it! Simple as that. Works without any problems with my 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 kernel and VMware 6 Player. In fact, this post was written using IE7 running under Windows XP Pro inside the box. Scary, isn’t it? ;)

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