As an experiment - could you check whether it works with --config container-networking-method=provider ? The container should get a DHCP-assigned IP from the physical network then, but that's (currently) not a supported feature on VMWare.
As an experiment - could you check whether it works with --config container- networking- method= provider ? The container should get a DHCP-assigned IP from the physical network then, but that's (currently) not a supported feature on VMWare.