Windows 2008 64 bit and problems with network drivers

[entsol]

Hope someone can help. We are trying to load Windows 2008 server 64 bit on a VM and we cannot get the network drivers to load. We have installed and re-installed VMtools.

As per the procedure in http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119774. We have also tried removing and adding the NIC but with no joy.

We are running VC 2.5 and ESX 3.5 hope someone can help

[Erik_Zandboer · Accepted solution]

Hi,

No experience with W2K8-64, but when a VM cannot detect the NIC, it sometimes helps to:

1) remove the VM from virtualcenter

2) edit the vmx file, and add or change the line:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

3) readd the VM to cirtualcenter and boot the VM.

This forces the NIC to an Intel E1000, which should work in most cases. Again, not sure if this is THE fix, but I have seen it work on other operating systems which have issues like this.

[entsol]

Erik ,

Thanks very much for the info will try this