VMWare won't connect to network

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Check out this article for getting vmware-workstation set up: VMware - ArchWiki

For enabling networking in the guest, start vmware-networks-configuration.service to generate /etc/vmware/networking, and then enable vmware-networks.service.

systemctl start vmware-networks-configuration.service
systemctl enable --now vmware-networks.service

See this section of the linked article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware#Package_build_for_x86_64

For vmware-workstationAUR, start vmware-networks-configuration.service first to generate /etc/vmware/networking.

Then, as desired, enable some of the following services:

  • vmware-networks.service for guest network access (otherwise you will get an error could no connect 'ethernet 0' to virtual network and you will not be able to use vmware-netcfg)
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