Windows – Increasing video card memory on virtual machine

You need to install the video drivers for this. In the virtual machine in question, go to:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\video_wddm\

and upgrade the video card drivers with these ones.

As discussed in Root Access chat:

1. You don't need to do port forwarding. Just use bridging to make your guest ask for an IP address on the router's own subnet, so the guest will have an IP like 192.168.2.178 (for example). It is recommended that you use bridging instead of trying to figure out how to convince VMware's NAT adapter to do port forwarding.

2. VMware Workstation 8 Manual page 144 (at the bottom) and the next couple of pages describe in detail how to set up bridging.

3. General idea is to use the Virtual Network Editor to change your connection type to bridged instead of NAT, and make sure that the adapter you edit is being mapped into the VM in the VM's settings pane. That's it -- if everything is set up properly on the host side, your guest will get an IP on the router.