Running the trial of Workstation 8.0.4 on a windows XP SP3 host, the vm is win XP SP3. Everything installed just fine. Patched and secured the VM Windows XP OS, loaded my application software, finished all the configuration of everything and everything was fine. Took a snapshot. Then shut it down for the weekend. Came back and now there is NO network connection because the VM says "Network cable unplugged".
Even reverted back to the snapshop taken when it was working. Did not help.
Went through the manual, this community and other info to verify all the NAT settings - don't see why it claims network cable unplugged.
On Host, Vitrual Network Editor shows VMnet8 connected on subnet 192.168.244.0, VM network settings were DHCP. So I changed the VM OS to a fixed IP of 192.168.244.25 / gateway 192.168.244.2 / DNS 192.168.244.2 - did not help. So changed back to DHCP for IP & DNS. Still have "network cable unplugged."
What am I missing? thanks.