As the title suggests, as soon as I install the vmware tools and reboot, the guest hangs on "Preparing network connections..."
If I let it sit for a long time (30 mins), I'll get a logon prompt, then another 20 mins to get to the desktop.
The guest boots in under 5 min prior to installing Tools.
This is a conversion from a physical box running fine.
I've tried (none work):
- installing tools without a network adapter in the guest
- booting in safe mode after tools
- extracting vmxnet3 driver from esx4 tools
- p2v from source
- cold image using BESR
- new VM, restore BESR backup
- non-destructive repair install after installing tools
- non-destructive repair before installing tools