I had this VM running NT 4 SP6a in Parallels. I uninstalled Parallels Tools, installed the VMWare Converter 3.something and ran it, saving the converted VM to a network volume. I then copied the entire VM folder to my local hard drive and ran it. I then installed VMWare Tools, updated the video driver, rebooted, removed the RealTek NIC left over from the Parallels VM, rebooted, installed the AMD PCNet Family adapter, allowed it to copy necessary files from a folder containing the contents of an NT4 SP3 install CD, rebooted, reinstalled SP 6a, and rebooted.

The networking isn't working. If I choose Shared or Host Only networking with DHCP, I don't get an IP address. When I choose Shared, does Fusion run a little DHCP Server and NAT router?

When I choose Bridged (which is what I really want to use), I get an IP address, but I still can't see any network shares or connect to any webservers. I'm rebooting NT every time I change networking options in Fusion.

I can't even ping the router that just gave me the IP address! ipconfig /all gives me:

Windows NT IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . : parallelsnt-01.pv.oc.cox.net
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . :
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No
NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : No

Ethernet adapter AMDPCN1:

Description . . . . . . . . : AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-0C-29-07-AC-58
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.193
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:11:43 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . : Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:11:43 AM

That lease time is correct (e.g. right after I booted). But oddly enough, if I do ipconfig /renew, it times out with a "Error: DHCP Server Unavailable: Renewing adapter "AMDPCN1"

It almost seems like it works for a very short period of time at boot, but then something starts to block or interfere with it. The OS X firewall is completely turned off. NT's Event Viewer shows the only error being NETLOGON: domain controller couldn't be contacted, which could also be because I'm at home right now.

Any other options out there? I really don't want to have to completely rebuild this VM, because there's a lot of stuff to do.