Virtual Guest OS does appear to have 10baseT Network Adapter

[alfafa63]

Hello,

I have somme toubles with network adpaters in VmWare ESX 3.0.2 and VmWare server 1.0.5.

In the virtual machine (under windows 2003 server ) i configure the speed network adapter like this : 100MFull Duplex.

But it appear with monitoring tool to have a 10baseT network adapter.

Do you have solutions ?

Alfafa63

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to appropriate Forum.

Note that the PCNET32 driver (default for Windows on VMware) is a 10BaseT device, so unless you change to the e1000 or vmxnet device drivers you are stuck with a 10Megabit Device. Even though actual performance should exceed that amount.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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[kjb007 · Accepted solution]

Install the vmware tools. That should give you the proper driver as Texiwill described.

-KjB