Hi all,
I am running VMware Workstation 9.02 on a Win 7 64bit machine. The guest is Win 8 64bit. Both NAT and Host-Only network adapters are installed (DHCP enabled). VMware Tools are installed.
The problem is that keeping the default settings "out of the box" (fresh installation of Win 8 etc.), it takes Win 8 very(!) long to find a website, say google.com. If you disable the Host-Only adapter, google pops up immediately!
You can see this also in cmd.exe when pinging a website: If you type "ping.google.com" it takes a very long time until the pinging starts. After it started, the ping is fast and fluent. However, if you ping 173.194.44.18 instead, the pinging starts immediately!
I have found out that if you manually define the DNS server of the Host-Only (I put there the IP address that the NAT network was using), the name resolution is again very fast and both pinging and loading websites is fast and fluent--the way it should be.
My question: Is this a known problem? A bug? All my settings were kept on "factory default", so I would assume this behavior is simply a malfunction! I don't think my system is very "exotic", so I would expect that such things work "out of the box" without "messing around" in the network settings.
I believe that my "solution" is more like a dirty hack, so I would appreciate any comments on how I could solve this problem in a proper way. Should I disable DHCP for the Host-Only network and use static IP addresses instead?
Thank you for your help!
Martin