Re: networking on Ubuntu VM stopped functioning after latest VMWare tools upgrade

Here's what could help you. It worked for me. Before proceeding:

• I run VMware Fusion on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.
• I just upgraded from Fusion 7.1.0 to 8.0.1.
• My Ubuntu is 14.04 LTS.

Here are the steps to resolve this problem:

1. Stop VMware Fusion - make sure it is not running.
2. sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/vmmon.kext
3. Unload VMware kernel extensions:
   • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vmx86
   • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vmnet
   • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vsockets
   • sudo kextunload -b com.vmware.kext.vmci
     
4. Copy the new VMware kernel extension to where it needs to be:
   • sudo cp -R /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/kexts/vmmon.kext /System/Library/Extensions/
5. Now you can start VMware Fusion, upgrade VMware Tools on the VMs, etc.
   

Hope this helps.