VMWare fusion and lost network connections

One of the few annoyances I have with VMWare fusion on my Mac is that sometimes after waking up from your laptop being asleep is that you will have no network connectivity in your Virtual Machine - at least for Windows. You can disable/enable the NIC inside of the VM, you can change it from NAT to bridged or vice versa, and still nothing. The only way of getting it to work again is to reboot your VM which can be a pain depending on what you were in the middle of. Fortunately, there is a work around for this issue without having to reboot your VM.

You need to create a simple script that has the following in it and make it executable:

cd "/library/application support/vmware fusion/"
sudo ./boot.sh --restart

This script will need to run as root, thus the need for the sudo command which will prompt for the root password on your machine, and then restart the Network Daemons without completely shutting down your virtual machines. This will cause the network functionality to be restored inside of your VM and can be very handy to save you some time during your day.