How do Install intel network driver on windows 2003 VM

[mcsnott]

Have been told I can setup vlan via guest VM if I have a intel e1000 driver installed.

I have added the following line in my vmx file-

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

But the device manager is still saying "AMD PCNet"

I know this config is not supported by VMware but I dont appear to be able to get other configs to work.

Thanks

[oreeh]

Did you unregister the VM before changing this and reregister it afterwards?

[sbeaver]

Ditto!! Do not know why but seems you have to do that to get it to stick

[oreeh]

Don't know the reason too, but I assume VC uses the DB and only flushes / updates the DB (and the VMX) after an unregister / register.

[sbeaver]

Maybe but it is "supposed" to read the vmx file everytime the VM is powered on

[oreeh]

We could try and file a SR / bug report

[mcsnott]

Thanks, stupid question but how do you re-register the vm.

I have switched it off, removed from inventory, deleted log and ram files and added the vm again. But this didn't work??

[oreeh · Accepted solution]

You don't need to delete any files.

To reregister the VM you can either use "vmware-cmd -s register pathtovmx" in the console or in the VI client open the datastore browser and right click the VM and select register.

[mcsnott]

OK thats strange did the same again. Only no need to delete ram or logs files as there were none. Andf the drivers have change. Stange just needed two attempts by looks of it. See if I can get this vlan stuff working now.

Ta ALL