Although I only support vSphere and VMware’s enterprise products, I use VMware Workstation every day. My work laptop runs Windows 10, but I maintain a couple of Linux VMs for day to day use as well. After a large Windows 10 feature update – 1709 I believe – I noticed that my Linux VMs were booting up without any networking. Their virtual adapters were simply reporting ‘link down’.
I had not changed any of the Workstation network configuration since I had installed it and always just used the defaults. For my guest VMs, I had always preferred to use ‘Bridged’ networking rather than NAT:
What I found odd was that the VMnet0 connection usually associated with bridging was nowhere to be found in the ‘Virtual Network Editor’.
When trying to add a new bridged network, I’d get the following error:
The exact text is:
“Cannot change network to bridged: There are no un-bridged host network adapters.”
Clearly, Workstation thinks the adapters are already bridged despite there not being any listed in the virtual network editor.
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