Quickly find the IP Addresses of your Virtual Machines on Windows   You just spun up a virtual machine in VMware Workstation for Windows. Maybe you want to connect over Remote Desktop. Maybe you need to SSH in. But you need its IP address. Under most configurations, VMware hands out IP addresses to your virtual machines through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). It keeps a record of every lease in a file on your host machine. The problem is that file is buried in yo