I’ve noticed that my Windows XP image in VMWare occasionally drops its shared connection. I’ll be plugging away, happily checking cross-browser compatibility (okay, that’s a lie, I’m miserable when I check cross-browser compatibility, which only makes it worse when it stops working) when all of a sudden, nothing is sudden anymore.

Pages will either not load at all or load so slowly that I’d almost prefer to get a “Page cannot be displayed” error. Usually this happens for a while before it occurs to me that the connection has dropped. Then I have to go find this post, which helpfully provides the terminal command that will restart the connection:

sudo  "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh" --restart

All of a sudden, the connection is whip-quick (well, you know, as whip-quick as IE gets, anyway). Problem solved.