NIC is listed in task bar as a removable device after hardware upgrade

[pdrace]

After moving some Windows 2003 and 2008 vms from 3.5 hosts to 4.0 hosts the network adapter is now shown as a removable device in the "Safely remove hardware" on the Windows task bar. Has anyone found a way to prevent this or at least hide it?

[AntonVZhbankov]

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[pdrace]

That works but are there any other side effects from doing this?

[AntonVZhbankov]

You won't have hot add hardware for this VM anymore, so any virtual hardware should be added to powered off VM.

You can try to disable hot-remove in Windows by group policy, didn't try this myself.

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http://blog.vadmin.ru