Zwitter Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Good day! First sorry for my english and second if topic like mine was created earlier :) I am making a project in college. I am making video of windows server 2008 learning and having problems with my network card. My Windows server 2008 is virtualized on VMware Workstation v5. My hardware is: mainboard an35n ultra- http://www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/en/an35n_faq.htm RAM 1.5 GB Processor AMD Athlon 2000+ Video Nvidia Geforce 5200 And my virtualized server does not recognize my integrated network card. So i tried to find Vista driver for it (server 2008 and vista is on the same platform, right?), that doesn't work. So i bought a PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter- D-Link DFE- 520TX, thought that will work and i will have network, but again- fail :( I tried to install it manualy, the system does it, but i get code 31, that it doesn't have proper driver. Installing from cd, did not help. So i'm asking: * My mainboard is to old, and i can forget about network on my virtualized system? * I have to do some configuring in VMware? * Why server doesn't found my PCI network card automaticly? * Is there a way to install Active Directory without network adapter? For first time, that will be enough. Thank you for help! ;) Quote
Forum² Admin F2 Staff Posted January 31, 2010 Forum² Admin Posted January 31, 2010 This is not a problem with your server install. It is a problem with the drivers that vmware installs. Make sure vmware tools are installed. If they are check that you have network config set to pass through and not bridged. Quote
Zwitter Posted February 1, 2010 Author Posted February 1, 2010 Thanks for advice :) So do you say that i have to use NAT? Quote
Forum² Admin F2 Staff Posted February 1, 2010 Forum² Admin Posted February 1, 2010 Yes use NAT option. Quote
Zwitter Posted February 2, 2010 Author Posted February 2, 2010 So, this is my configuration This is my network config dialog This i get when install lan driver manualy And i have to do here some changes or not (Virtual machine Edit-> Virtual network settings)? p.s. i stoll dont have any network :( Quote
Forum² Admin F2 Staff Posted February 3, 2010 Forum² Admin Posted February 3, 2010 For whate ever reason vmware is not creating the network bridge. Do you have vmware tools installed on the host? Quote
Zwitter Posted February 3, 2010 Author Posted February 3, 2010 Yes i hade installed them, but now it doesn't matter. I have found this program VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/. It is very simple to use, and do not need any configuration, it works for me, and finally i have network on my virtual server ;) Thans for help and advices :) Quote
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