Windows 7 beta and VMWare player - network gotcha

http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1818-How-to-get-VMWare-Workstation-6.5-Guest-VM-NAT-working-with-a-Windows-7-Build-7000-host.html

http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1781-Semi-functional-workaround-for-networking-issues-with-VMWare-Workstation-6.5-and-Windows-7.html#comments

I dealt with this issue (WMWare Player networking doesn't work on Windows 7 beta) when the beta first came out. Turns out things haven't gotten any better yet, which frankly I find surprising. The author of these posts does a good job of laying out the alternatives and workarounds. I'm not a fan of ICS. At the moment I do have bridging working, as I am mostly working on a lan. However the gotcha is when you are working remotely using an aircard. You need NAT because you can't bridge to the cell provider. So this is a real problem.