Reconnecting Virtual NICs in a Running Virtual Machine

After you customize a guest network in a running virtual machine, you must reconnect the virtual NICs before the guest operating system can use them.

To reconnect a virtual NIC by reconfiguring the virtual machine, prepare a VirtualMachineConfigSpec data object that specifies a connected virtual NIC. You pass the config specification in the spec parameter of the ReconfigVM_Task method. Assign a value of True to the property spec.deviceChange[].device.connectable.connected.