Hi,
For everybody who is still struggling with this issue i have bit of a hack that might help you.
It appears that VMWare Fusion has some trouble with Active Directory and DNS.
The main problem seems to be the virtual networks for "host-only", "NAT" and "shared".
For these 3 virtual networks there are 3 ethernet adapters added to your Mac OS-X.
For me i needed Bridged networking so i just disabled the other 3 network adapters within the following configuration file:
/Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking
I did this by opening up the terminal and executing the following command:
sudo nano /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking
And i changed the settings as following:
VERSION=1,0
answer VNET_1_DHCP no
answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH ...
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK ...
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET ...
answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no
answer VNET_8_DHCP no
answer VNET_8_DHCP_CFG_HASH ...
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_NETMASK ...
answer VNET_8_HOSTONLY_SUBNET ...
answer VNET_8_NAT no
answer VNET_8_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER no
add_bridge_mapping en0 2
Where yes needs to be no.
Stop VMWare Fusion and restart.
With the following command in the terminal you will see only the en0 ethernet adapter:
ifconfig
Now startup the host OS and voila it should work.
Be aware that it might be possible that you need to do these steps again once you altered the network settings through the GUI of VMWare.
Because it is a configuration file and it might be edited again by VMWare Fusion.
I have not tested this since its now working for me.
Best regards,
Richard