First, You may the error, The Network Bridge on Device VMnet0 is Temporarily down because the bridge Ethernet interface. Of course, you are a Windows Users (any level) and believe that this will be helpful to you. However, the frustration part of The Network Bridge on Device VMnet0 is Temporarily down error is that your settings are correct. Now, lets try to read something about this and resolve this as well.
The Network Bridge on Device VMnet0 is Temporarily down because the Bridge Ethernet Interface is down.
In the end, There can be number of possible way to solve this issue and some of best practices that I have ever used to solve this problem are as mentioned below;
Possible Solutions
- Go to your host (Where VMware Product is installed in Windows).
- Select computer’s NIC Property (as below image) check there and verify that the “VMware Bridge Protocol” appear in the list?
- is it checked? Check it if not, and if it’s missing try to add it by clicking on Install > Services in NIC Property Windows.
- Go to VMware Installation location and then VMware Workstation/Player (in my case) folder and point to vmbridge.inf, edit it in notepad etc. and verify below settings;
[Strings] CompanyName = “VMware, Inc.” VMware_Desc = “VMware Bridge Protocol” VMware_HelpText = “Gives virtual machines access to physical networks.” DiskDescription = “VMware install disk” REG_DWORD = 0x10001
Solution : The IT Guy
In fact, this is a more than successful solution and IT expert tried it almost in everything. This is funny but you will 100% found it a working solution.
- Re-Install VMware Workstation / VMware Player, Yes ! You heard it right, re-install it but when you re-install it, do at least one word change in installation path.
On the whole, this will be helpful to you and this can be applied on VMware Workstation & VMware Player as well and you may found the link below.
