teokrata wrote: But.. I can pinging google.com
If you can ping Google but not connect via a Browser this this looks like a DNS Resolution issue and is not a VMware issue per se when using Bridged Networking and will need to be diagnosed/troubleshot just as if running on a Physical Machine however make sure the Host's Firewall is not blocking anything network related.
In a Browser if using the IP Address for Google can you get to it?
As an example, if I ping google.com
it returns: 74.125.228.4
So if you use http://74.125.228.4 in a Browser do you reach Google?