Virtual Network Editor in VMWare Player

After deploying a lot of VMWare ESXi, deploying VMWare using VMWare Player seems like so cumbersome, there is no advance networking tool like virtual network editor in the free VMWare Player!

Hopefully, VMWare does bundle the virtual network editor together with the installation package, just that when we choose the GUI installation, we won't get the tool installed somehow.

It is still possible to extract it, like this:

If the VMWare Player setup program is named 'vmware.exe', just invoke the command prompt and type this

C:/Temp/vmware.exe -e C:/Temp/vmtemp

All the installation files will be extracted out to the C:/Temp/vmtemp directory.
There is one *.cab file we have to extract, that is the network.cab

Open the compressed archive with any zip/unzip sofware, like WinZip, 7zip or WinRAR, etc.

There you go, the file vmnetcfg.exe is the Virtual Network Editor tool.

The virtual network editor tool is very version specific, when we are using VMWare Player 3.1.2.301548, we will need to extract the vmnetcfg.exe out from the exact setup package. Any other vmnetcfg.exe will not work.

Cheers!