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ahmedilyas2019
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‎05-15-2019 08:29 AM

VMWare guest OS not seeing NIC

So, getting pretty annoyed with alot of things here.

I have VMware 12 Pro.

I managed to image a laptop and convert it into a virtual machine using Acronis backup and recovery 11.7 (THAT was a PITA)

The image is a Win10 Enterprise x64 OS.

I am able to boot it and everything but it does not see the network card even though in VMWare I added a network card.

any ideas on how to get the image to see the network card? I even installed VMware tools using the ISO and nothing.

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RDPetruska
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‎05-15-2019 09:11 AM

Attach the vmx file for this guest here - to see what the virtual NIC settings are.

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ahmedilyas2019
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‎05-15-2019 09:13 AM

Please see attached

CTL Upgraded.vmx.zip
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a_p_
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‎05-15-2019 12:20 PM

Welcome to the Community,

please try changing the guest OS to "Windows 10" in the VM's settings (it's currently "other").

If this doesn't already solve the issue, add ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" to the .vmx file.

André

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ahmedilyas2019
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‎05-15-2019 12:55 PM

Thank you.

OK, did that. One step closer!

Right now it is saying unidentified network.

so, I need for it to be able to access the host as well as the internet (on the host).

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a_p_
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‎05-15-2019 01:08 PM

In this case I'd suggest that you set the VM's network to "NAT".

André

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