The limitation of VMWare Player is that it only allows bridged network adapters on the Guest to be connected to an automatically-selected network adapter on the Host. I use a USB3/GigE adapter that I can connect directly to my automation networks. The second adapter is a little trickier, because I use the VMWare Workstation Virtual Network Editor to manually set the bridged network to a specific physical network adapter on my Host computer. The second is set up as a Bridged connection, with a Static IP address that's part of my automation network. That allows it access to both resources on my LAN (like my FactoryTalk Activation server) and to the Internet.
The first is set up for ordinary DHCP on the Guest side, and configured using the ordinary VM Removable Devices -> Network Adapter settings as a NAT connection.
