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I just now installed Cent OS 7 on my VMware 8 and I am not able to connect it to a network.

I checked the VM network and its mapped to the physical NIC. The same setting work like charm on my CentOS 5 running on VM8.

Doing a ip a shows the below output

ip output

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Forgot to mention i didnt find resolve.conf file on the system too (Read an article suggestion issues with resolve.conf so tried looking it up and it was missing ) – Atul May 28 '15 at 23:58
    
So when you get out of full screen when you click on the network cable icon on the bottom right and click preferences, what kind of connection you have there? – Victor May 29 '15 at 2:31
    
What kind of system r u using 32-bit or 64-bit? centos7 is basically designed to work on a 64-bit system. If 32-bit system, while installing on vmware try installing using centos as 64-bit then u wont find any network issues. – user117244 May 29 '15 at 5:19
    
I have tried briged and NAT both and had no luck. The NAT works fine on my other machine ie CentOS 5 – Atul May 29 '15 at 6:41
    
When you created the VM and it asked what kind of OS was to be installed did you select Linux or windows? If created as a "Windows" VM you'll get a different NIC type that may not work, and it's a hassle to change after the fact (you can't change it through the GUI). – Centimane Sep 22 at 13:33
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You have to activate the interface. One way of doing that is with Network Manager's utility nmtui.

Open nmtui with:

$ sudo nmtui

And you'll get a text based interface like this:

enter image description here

Navigate by using TAB and ENTER.

In nmtui you can activate your interface, edit connection's and set hostname.

After you're done, restart network with:

$ sudo systemctl restart network
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I tried configuring the wifi connection hoping it will connect to my wifi and get on the network however it did nothing. Ip a shows no interface again. Should i be selecting a different connection type? – Atul May 29 '15 at 6:38
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I user bridged network,you should attach your guest OS's network interface to host interface,you need edit vmware's network editor:

Edit ->  Virtual Network Editor -> bridged to host interface

picture:

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Open my.vmx which contain your VM configurations and Added the following line to my.vmx:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

My problem was solved by this line.

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In the nmtui, edit the connection and then select Automatically Connect check box. Restart the network and you should be back in business :-)

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