From the WWW vmx file: Ethernet1.present = "TRUE" Ethernet1.connectionType = "bridged" Ethernet1.vnet = "/dev/vmnet2" ethernet1.addressType = "generated" ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:53:9d:d2" ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10" Within VM, ifconfig gives: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:53:9D:D2 inet addr:194.82.228.9 Bcast:194.82.228.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe53:9dd2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1481 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:219418 (214.2 KiB) TX bytes:1056 (1.0 KiB) Interrupt:185 Base address:0x1480 This is the same subnet as vmnet2 is bridging (on host): root 3571 0.0 0.0 1312 96 ? S 11:41 0:00 /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge -d /var/run/vmnet-bridge-2.pid /dev/vmnet2 eth1 ifconfig on host: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:0A:61:56:6F inet addr:194.82.228.8 Bcast:194.82.228.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::211:aff:fe61:566f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1505 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:119059 (116.2 KiB) TX bytes:1396 (1.3 KiB) Base address:0x5040 Memory:fdf60000-fdf80000