This is a fix for the problem that occurs when running vmware on a system with avahi.

avahi starts publishing the addresses from the vmnet interfaces with the hostname.

To fix create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="vmnet?" GOTO="vmnet_start"
GOTO="vmnet_end"

LABEL="vmnet_start"

ACTION=="add",	RUN+="/sbin/ifconfig $env{INTERFACE} -multicast"

LABEL="vmnet_end"

Tested on: Ubuntu hardy, VMWare 6.02