Question: I am running a Ubuntu Linux image in VMWare Player on my laptop. The host is Windows XP.

There are two network adapters configured in VMWare Player - one is host-only and the other is bridged. Everything works fine as long as the host does not lose network connectivity.

If the host loses connectivity (even briefly) and then re-acquires it, my bridged adapter in VMWare Player is still unable to get an IP address. The host-only adapter remains unaffected. Disconnecting/Reconnecting the bridged adapter does not help. Simply restarting the guest OS does not help. Restarting VMWare Player does not help. The only remedy is to reboot the host and then bring up VMWare Player all over again.

Is there something I can try to avoid this reboot? I searched the existing questions but they seemed to talk about adapters in NAT mode, whereas I am interested in retaining Bridged mode.

Answer: 
There should be an option there to communicate the host computer's network connectivity state to the guest that you can uncheck. Is VMware tools installed on the guest?

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I have spend some lot time on the same problem i have find the solution without need to rebooting or installing vmware tools !

In fact the problem is very vicious because :

* It's appear only with linux guest, never on windows guest.
* you can accumulate it with an other well know problem who appear after copying your VM guest and know as udev / netrules problem / bab mac address in net rules )but there is any relation between this 2 facts.

This is logical to think that the problem came from your guest VM but **in fact the problem came only from your host.**

On your host you certainly have installed some other nics as “virtualbox host only”, “loopback microsoft” “physical NICS bind to an other network ”, “bleutooth dongle” ...

When you bridge a vm guest directly to the physical network vmware in fact your are connected to the vmnet0 -> workstation assign / fix automatically the NIC to use without as you something and sometime it do not choose the good one ...

VMWARE Workstation never ask you to choose the NIC physical link in order to be connected to the physical network where you got your DHCP (in my case a monowall) and sometime he decided to bind your guest to a logical NIC … without DHCP server, finaly you never get your DHCP lease.

How to solve the problem :

It’s easy you only need to choose and apply the good NIC in \*\*the virtual network editor \*\* in workstation in order to fix this problem. 

Have a nice day !

***Nota: Sorry but i can't post any image I am new on this forum → my reputation is to low …***