Ubuntu 18.04 VM doesn't have any network interfaces

I have created VMWare VM from ubuntu 18.04 installed on the physical partition. ifconfig shows only lo. I tried installing vmware-tools bundled with VMWare: they didn't work! I booted the Ubuntu at system boot-up and installed open-vm-tools and again booted virtually: they didn't work! I didn't face this issue with previous versions of Ubuntu. I don't know why the good old interfaces file is wrapped with netplan.