Normally you cannot bridge a wireless network in VMWare on Linux. However, from this hack
http://www.hauke-m.de/artikel/vm-ware-wlan-bugfix. Its in German and English.

You should download http://www.hauke-m.de/uploads/media/vmnet.tar as per his article. 

The replace that file in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/. I would backup the original just in case. 

So I fought this problem all day long. My Windows XP VMWare image was running like crap. I started to poke around. The first thing I did was to bring up the task manager. Sure enough, my virtual CPU was pegged at around 55-60% when the vm was doing nothing. This is not good!

But when I looked at the actual processes running in Task Manager, I could find nothing taking more than single digit percents of the cpu. Weird. I should have used Sysinternals Process Explorer in the first place instead of XP's crap tools. It told me that my Hardware Interrupts were running my system down to a crawl.

I've been messing around a lot with virtual technologies recently. Partly due to the virtualization technology that we have been using at work, but mostly because its cool and every once in a while I need to run something in Windows and I don't want to reboot on my dual boot laptop.

I ran out of room on my 8gb windows vmware partition. I decided to double the capacity. Easy enough. I've done this before. I'll just run the vmware command:

vmware-vdiskmanager Windows\ XP\ Professional.vmdk -x 16Gb 

Then I will just boot up from the gparted-clonezilla livecd and expand the NTFS partition.