It is not vmware related problem.
I burned CD and same scenario is 100% reproducible on "real" hardware.
I have Lenovo T60, eth0 driver is e1000.
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The Interface does not exist
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219144
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here is the screenshot
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The Interface does not exist
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219144
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Desktop
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-nettool
steps to reproduce:
1. wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/hardy-desktop-i386.iso
BTW: md5sum is: 86dc6f4792fa5a69e73e30cd33cdfd11 hardy-desktop-i386.iso
and this is daily build dated: 17.04.2008.
2. boot using vmware