Installation of the Intel nic drivers causes the Guest VM to shut off

[fgl]

Hello All,

I'm running into a problem that has been driving me nuts and I've already searched and googled every possible solutions out there and still I can't seem to be able to get pass the installation of the Intel nic drivers for the pro 1000/mt, it would just shut off the vm everytime during the installation. I'm doing this on a vm that I have p2v over that originally was using the HP nic drivers for VGT vlans and I now need to do the same using the Intel pro 1000/mt drivers but I just can't get pass the installation of the drivers. I've done the ethernet0.virtualdev="e1000" thing, I've tried changing the OS type to 64bit, I've tried uninstalling all nic drivers and let the VM redetect and reinstall it's default Intel driver which does not have VGT capabilities and when I run the Intel driver installation which I have the lastest one from the Intel site version 14 it always just shut off the VM. HELP!!!

[AndreTheGiant]

I'm not sure 100% that you can use the HP/Intel driver inside the VM. The best solution is use VMware Tools drivers.

VLAN tagging can be done a vSwitch level. Or you have a lot of VLAN inside the VM?

In this case you can see this KB:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1004252&sliceId=1

Andre

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[AndreTheGiant]

Try this step:

• use a 64 bit VM (in this case e1000 is the default driver)

• install you system and VMware Tools

• then try to use your driver, if something fails go back.

Note that you cannot change VM architecture (32->64 or 64->32 bit) without reinstall the OS.

If you want to do P2V and your source is 32 bit, the destination must be 32 bit.

Andre

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I know it's only possible with the e1000 driver and I've followed that VM article but my problem is that I can't get the e1000 driver install as part of the Intel driver installation package. During the installation it causes the guest VM to just power off and nothing gets install. A new installation is not an option and the existing is 32bit so according to the article it will work if I can just get pass the Intel installation package which is the problem.