VMware Player vmnetcfg
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:37 | 
Written by Tony | 
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Recently I was using VMware Player 3 on my laptop but I was not able to get an IP address with Bridged Networking selected. Being a user of VMware products for many years, I knew there was a quick fix.
I navigated to the VMware Player directory to run vmnetcfg but it was not there. Unfortunately, the new version of VMware Player doesn’t include vmnetcfg in the installer anymore. Lucy for all of us, it is included in the installer.
To extract vmnetcfg.exe from the installer do the following:
1. Run the installer with /e option. For example:
VMware-player-3.0.0-197124.exe /e .\extract
Contents will be extracted to “extract” folder.
2. Open “network.cab” and copy vmnetcfg.exe to your installation folder,
typically “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\”.
Now you can run vmnetcfg to exclude network adapters from binding.
Last Updated (Monday, 27 December 2010 16:28)
Comments
Thankyou very much!
I wonder why they would include a file into the package but exclude it from the installation script? Player vs. Workstation positioning? - kinda lame implementation. Hmm...
Helped a lot!!!
Thanks!!!
Does anybody know how to make it connect internet? The above doesn't work for me...
The only issue I had with 2.x was that it would not bridge to wireless devices, you had to have it bridged to a physical ethernet adapter.
The UI comes along with the player
go to the vmware-directory and run in elevated cmd.exe-box
rundll32.exe vmnetui.dll VMNetUI_ShowSta ndalone
unfortunately, vmnetcfg was removed from vmplayer 5 (5.0.1 build-894247), but this rundll trick works like charm
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