I have a fair amount of nostalgia for BeOS and have watched the development of Haiku OS over the years, even giving it a number of goes under VMware. I never bothered to get networking working, but with the release of Haiku R1/alpha1 I had to try. Here’s how:

You can edit the vmx file in a text editor, just add the following line:

ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000”

Restart the VM and it should work fine

Voilà!