I can only access the Internet through a virtual machine
I don't know if this question belongs here or in the virtualization forum so I've placed it here
I have Debian 8 jessie running as the host operating system on my laptop. I then have VMWARE Workstation 12 running multiple different OS's as virtual machines. At the time when this issue started I was working with a windows 7 vm and a Kali 2.0 vm. I had both connected to the internet via NAT.
The problem started with my system starting to lag badly and then locking up to the point where even holding the power button down would not shut it down. I had to unplug the power supply and pull the battery to get it turned off.
Upon booting back in to Debian I was not able to access the internet through the browser or any other means. ifconfig showed a lot of virtual interfaces and bridges that I went through and removed. I removed the virtual networks I had created in vmware and restarted the networking and network-manager multiple times. After all of this, my system looks as though it should be able to access the internet just fine but it cant. Network manager is telling me I'm connected to the ineternet but I can't access any web pages.
Just out of curiosity and because I was at a loss I opened vmware, and created a virtual network (vmnet0) bridged to the physical interface on the host os, it works with both eth0 and wlan0. When I started up one of the vm's and set it to bridged also (not connected to vmnet0) I am able to access the internet just fine one that vm. If I disable vmnet0 in the virtual network editor I lose the connection.
I should also note that before this started I had both vm's set to bridged, but they were not on the same subnet as the host for some reason. ie. the host was on 192.168.1.xxx and the vm's were on 192.168.20.xxx.
I am completely at a loss and I have been unable to find anyone else who has had this issue online.
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