I have a VMware (player 7.1.1) virtual machine running Windows 8.0 inside it. The host is Win 10 1803.
For quite a while, it worked in bridge mode, and would get an IP address on my LAN. But lately, and I don't know what has changed other than updates of the Windows 10 host, I resume it or even shut it down and restart it and Win 8 complains that it has no IP address. Once in maybe 10 reboots of both host and VM, it will work.
I can see using the network scanner that it is not talking. I can run it in nat mode, but I prefer it to get its own IP address, so my router can tell it from the host for counters and access control. I have a pretty much run of mill router, a tplink TL-WR841N.
Can anyone advise me how I might use this program to determine what is going on?
Also, I downloaded the portable version. I've run it on the host. Am I permitted to run this inside the VM also? Might that help figure out what is going on? Is the installed version any different in capability?
Thanks