My VMware system hangs on boot while bringing up the network interfaces

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • VMware system hangs during system boot while bringing up the network.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • VMware virtualization

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