Hi, we're not entirely sure what you're asking us to do here....
We don't use vlan1 anywhere on our network. The MM vm is told it has an access port, which it does on the appropriate vlan for our infrastructure.
What I'm not clear on is irrespective of whether the VM can successfully communicate with the rest of the world, it shouldn't fail to interract with the virtual NIC, which it appears to, and it shouldn't kernel panic.
I'm trying to arrange a screen share session with TAC, along with someone from our VM team. It's starting to feel like the OS8 VMs are not compatible with VMware 6, but I don't have enough information to be certain of that.