Windows Server 20008 Ent Edt guest ethernet drivers

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hello,

I have a VMWare player environment with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SP1 Version 6, converted this environment to VMWare ESXi 4.0. Upon powering on I got a prompt to install the Ethernet Drivers because the network drivers did not get installed on its own as its supposed to be. Deleted all hidden devices from device manager, reboot the env multiple times but everytime there comes a prompt to install Ethernet drivers. The network adapter type is VMXNet3

If I change the network adapter type to be E1000 then the guest network works. Why is it that VMXNet3 doesnt work but E1000 works. I havent tried using the other adapters - Flexible and VMXNet2. I want to use VMXNet3 adapter as all my other environments use this adapter.

Regards,

Nikhil

[prakashraj]

Hi,

Have you updated the VMware tools ?

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[AntonVZhbankov]

Did you install VMware Tools? VMware Tools package contains VMXNET3 driver.

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[Nikhil_Patwa]

Yes I did install VMWare tools, even repaired it but the problem still persists can't get the VMXNet3 adapter working. Working with the E1000 adapter at the moment.

[TobiasKracht]

Try to turn off NIC in properties of VM, than remove VmTools, delete all hidden devices and clean registry, reboot, install VmTools, and than add VMXNET3 NIC.

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[prakashraj]

Hi,

What virtual hardware version present in guest VMX file?

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[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hi

When creating a fresh copy of Windows Server 2008 am able to select VMXNet3 ethernet adapter and it works fine, I think the problem lies when converting the VM of Windows Server 2008 and during the conversion process you leave the default settings. I have also managed to convert another Windows Server 2008 environment and changed the NIC to be VMXNet3 before starting the conversion and this environment works properly. Can close this question for now.