I converted a physical windows server 2003 R2 32 bit machine to esxi virtual. Now it boots up but no network driver for the auto selected network card. Also if I try to install vmware tools from esxi it does nothing. Other windows systems automatically mount the tools cvc and install. This one does not even mount a tools dvd.
I am heading over to that branch this wekend and hope someone has some pointers on how to proceed to get a working network card and vmware tools installed. This is esxi 7. When I converted I did not use latest esxi hardware version. It suggested I use version 18, I went with version 14. I know I can upgrade later but cannot downgrade. so first question is should I update to a higher hardware version or leave it at 14.
Next, where do I find the tools DVD on the esxi host so I can manually mount it on this virtual machine? or can I download the tools dvd somewhere?
Finally what do you suggest to use as network card. I see in the compatibility guide I can use e1000, vmxnet or vmxnet3. I think what it automatically selected was an AMD something adapter so I obviously have to change that.
