The Internet Engineering Task Force has reserved the address block 169.254.1.0 through 169.254.254.255 for link-local addressing
Yeah, that was included in the link I gave about the APIPA protocol. Still, these addresses are attributed to my host's VMNetX interfaces, so I don't see the link with your 2nd statement, especially since my guest system has access to the Internet whereas it's connected to the host in NAT mode!
Thanks anyway...