If bridged networking is failing for a VM in VMware with a Linux host, try the following.

{{{
$ ethtool -K eth0 sg off rx off tx off
}}}

or

{{{
$ ethtool -K eth0 sg off rx off tx off tso off
}}}

This usually manifests itself as eth0 being unable to get an IP address and causes the VM to hang for a few minutes on boot.

Source

[http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2007/08/23/vmware-on-ubuntu-linux-with-bridged-network-to-xp/]

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