My main system environment is running Linux (with a dual boot of Windows 10) and I have a Windows 10 guest VM.
I've found that after I've used the on-metal install of Windows 10 and then get back into Linux after I've finished, when I open the Windows 10 VM, that virtual machine *always* loses it's network connection and I can NEVER get it working again without removing all network devices from within Windows Device Manager, removing all device profiles from the registry [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles], removing the network device from my VM, and then reinstalling VMWare Player and adding a new network device to the VM (at which point Windows happily detects that a new network connection has been found.
Network connection on the host system always works (both Linux and Windows)
This is clearly a huge pain and I'm wondering a) why this happens, and b) how can I fix the issue when it does come up.
Edit: I'm using VMWare Player 12.5.7