Having trouble getting a network connection in VMWare Player

[Charmonium]

Briefly, win10 i7 lappy running VMWare Player. The VM is XP. I can't get the VM to connect to the internet. I've tried bridged and NAT options, nada.

Did a search and didn't find anything useful. The best I got was to uninstall VMWare and Kaspersky and reinstall VMW first, get the connection up and THEN install Kaspersky.

But come on, there has to be something in Kaspersky that I can open up to get the bits flowing, right?

 

[William Gaatjes]

I do not know if this might help, but i came across it while searching about filter drivers and possible issues.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-drivers/78a969d0-1e37-402a-b94d-877334cc07a7

how can I find out how many network filter drivers I have using Windows 7 and uninstall if too many

I have been told to locate the following registry subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Network but cannot find it. I have clicked Start,click Run, type regedit, OK but still cannot find it

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Apparently, there is a key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\MaxNumFilters

that shows the maximum count. Further, if you look at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4d36e974-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\

Each entry corresponds to a possible filter.



In my case, I had 13 filters but the MaxNumFilters was only set at 8! Some installs (like Virtual PC) will not complete if you have 13 or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_driver

 

[Charmonium]

Thanks for that but I followed the brute force approach of uninstalling VMWare and Kaspersky then intalling VM, setting up the network connection, then installing Kaspersky.

That seemed to work. Plus when I went to create a W7 VM, the network connection worked there too. So I'm guessing the issue is with Kaspersky which didn't trust the VMWare Player software until it saw it running during the install. That's just a guess though.