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AlexsYB
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎04-14-2013 10:38 PM

Changes to the VMX file (network device type)

Hi

I have a VM with 4 nics, the E1000, I would like to change this to the vmnet3. I have had some issues with E1000 and tcp offloading !

But I don't want to delete the NIC's and then recreate them... its a pain.

Can i just stop the VM, edit the VMX, change the E1000 to vmnet3 and then restart

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jonathanp
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Expert
‎04-16-2013 02:04 PM

yes that should work, but there is always special case that you may have to re ip the nic...

you may have a look at : http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-change-virtual-machine-network-adapter-manually/

Regards

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