On Jun 16, 2009, at 14:38, Geoff Galitz wrote: > Are you running VMWare Workstation or Server? VMware Workstation. > I am running VMWare > Workstation under MS Vista with a bunch of Centos guest VMs. I > noticed that > when my Vista host network connection changes state (becomes > unavailable or > becomes available for any reason) that the VMWare software switch > has real > trouble. I often lose my ability to DHCP, for example. Or perhaps > DNS is > impacted. It is my feeling that their networking code is just not very > robust. Hmm, interesting points. I'll have to check his settings. Unfortunately, I will be out of the office for the next 1.5 weeks so it may have to wait until I return. > Would using shared folders be a viable alternative? Shared folders without a network? How does one set that up? Alfred