I just installed VMWare Player 4.0.2 onto a Windows 7 Pro 32bit Workstation. Next, I virtualized a Physical Machine running XP Media Center 32bit and copied the VM to the Windows 7 machine and opened the VM in the VMWare Player. It started up and is running. The only problem is that VMWare Tools could not be found for the XP Media Center guest VM, so it attempted to connect to VMWare to download the Tools. The problem is that it fails to connect to the server to check for updates. I have disabled the firewall, rebooted, verified that I am connected to the internet on the Windows 7 host machine, I can even get out to the internet from the XP VM guest. I am not connecting out through a proxy and I changed the Player preferences to 'No Proxy'. In network connections I see 3 adapters, the physical, and two virtual. Although both virtual show as unidentified it doesn't seem to affect the XP VM from gaining internet access. Which I'm a little confused about. Also, does the player get its network connection from the host's physical adapter or through the virtual adapters? I know the VMs get their network connections from the virtual adapters. Any Ideas on how I can get the player connecting to vmware's update servers?
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