VMPlayer doesn't recognize network adapter driver

[komyg]

Hi, I recently installed a Windows XP Professional SP2 as a guest machine in my Kubuntu 6.06 LTS using VMPlayer.

When I enter on control panel->system->device manager the network adapter is displayed as if windows didn't foud it's driver.

When I try to install the driver using the network adapter cd Windows says that it couldn't find the driver inside the cd.

Can anyone help me?

Also I need to access the serial port but when enable the serial 0 on the VMPlayer menu it says that it hasn't found the serial port, but when I start VMPlayer as root it finds the serial port.

Is there a permission issue here that I don't know about? If so how can I fix it?

Thanks,

Komyg

[KevinG]

Post the .vmx file from the virtual machine

What device driver were you trying to install?

[komyg]

Well I finally got things working now, the problem was that my virtual drive was:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" instead of ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet".

Now I have another problem: I installed vmware-tools and I made the windows updates, but when I delete a file it disappears from my virtual c: (as it should), but when I go into c:->properties I find out that my virtual drive has the same empty space it had before I deleted the file.

Can you help me?

Thanks,

Komyg0

[KevinG]

This is normal, you need run defrag & shrink on a growable virtual disk.

[komyg]

I see, can you tell me how can I do that?

Thanks,

komyg