Ubuntu vm: No network interface, no UI
I have an Ubuntu VMWare virtual machine that stopped having an internet connection after a forced a shutdown. Upon inspection there were no connections in the Network panel of Settings. I found this previous superuser question: Ubuntu: Missing network interface and no UI and miraculously the one and only answer worked! Only problem is that every time I boot the vm back up I have to do the whole procedure again. Worth noting that I don’t have an eth0 interface but I have one called ens33 and that’s what I used for the commands. Does anyone know what’s going on or how I can just automate the procedure so that it runs every time I boot? (ugly solution, I know, but I spent hours researching and that answer is the only thing I found)
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You want to modify the network configuration for this interface so it automatically comes up and runs dhcp.
I am not sure which network configuration strategy your linux is using; your answer depends on which of these files exists:
/etc/network/interfaces
Given Ubuntu, it’s probably this strategy.
Put these two lines into the file if they are not present already, and remove other lines related to ens33:
auto ens33 iface ens33 inet dhcp Note: If you see the line «source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*.cfg», you may also have a «/etc/network/interfaces.d/ens33.cfg» file. If you see this line in your interfaces file, it would be more appropriate to put your changes into the ens33.cfg file.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens33.cfg
In the future most distributions should be shifting to this configuration strategy so I am putting it for future users. This should be the contents of the file, and probably nothing else.
DEVICE=ens33 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes If you are still encountering issues, please post the contents of these files.
Ubuntu installed on Vmware cannot get access to internet
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on Vmware, the host machine is Windows 7. However, I cannot get access to internet from Ubuntu. I am not clear how to identify the cause and fix it? Thank you for the help. This the screenshot I choose the option of «bridged» option. Besides, I also include the result of running ifconfig 
I also try to change to «bridge option» 
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Selecting NAT option under Network Connection in Network Adapter setting has done the trick for me.
You just need to Bridge your actual Ethernet port to VmWare port, so that virtual machine get access to internet through that bridged connection.
In order to do that, instruction are available on following links:
1. Configuring Bridged Networking Options on a Windows Host
2. Vmware Help
This will definitely solve your issue.
For Vmware PLayer: How to Fix a VMware Player Bridged Network?
There are images shown in the article, which will help you to attend each step.
Another resolution is it may be possible that it won’t work with Bridged Connection. Try with NAT (N/W Address Translation) option.
if it still doesn’t work then check your UBUNTU has correct driver installed.
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I have Fusion 12.2.3 running in MacOS 12.4 which I use to host an Ubuntu client. I updated Ubuntu from 21.x to 22.04 successfully, it ran an Ubuntu update and rebooted fine. From that point it had no network connection at all.
I guessed the update didn’t go well so I killed that client and installed a fresh one with Ubuntu 22.04 directly from their website. The same thing happened — it worked initially but after an update the networking again failed.
I realise this may be an Ubuntu issue (although a pretty bad one if so!) but does anyone have any idea what could be wrong on the Fusion side? Here’s what I’ve tried:
— disconnect/reconnect NW adapter in Fusion settings
— try each available network setting there (bridged, NAT)
— go into Network Adapter Settings and try each choice there (Share with my Mac, Autodetect, Ethernet, Wifi).