I managed to fix my own networking problem:

Seems it's an oddity in VMWare. I had to change the virtual network adapter to a CUSTOM network adapter. I switched it to VMnet2 (Bridged), and ensured that VMnet2 was bound directly to my Broadcom (wired) network adapter on the host.

Not sure if this was necessary, but I also deleted all the network adapters in my hackintosh by running this command, and then rebooting:
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

This reset my problem with en2 vs. en0.

Hope this helps someone out there in Hackintosh land. ;-)