Personal website of Dave Hope » Drivers http://davehope.co.uk Open source projects, sysadmin stuff and general geekage Tue, 18 May 2010 11:46:44 +0000 en hourly 1 Windows 2003 Datacenter Guest NIC Driver for Virtual Server http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/windows-2003-datacenter-guest-nic-driver-for-virtual-server/ http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/windows-2003-datacenter-guest-nic-driver-for-virtual-server/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:44:20 +0000 Dave http://davehope.co.uk/Beta/wordpress/Blog/windows-2003-datacenter-guest-nic-driver-for-virtual-server/ Came across a problem the other day with running Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition as a guest on Microsoft Virtual Server. The problem? Windows 2003 Datacenter edition doesn’t have a suitable driver for Virtual Server, meaning that it’s fairly usless as a guest operating system (which negates one of the main benefits of having datacenter edition – unlimited VMs with no additional license cost).

I spoke to Peter Meister at Microsoft who was a great help, and whilst waiting for a solution from them I found some drivers which work. Install these drivers in your datacenter edition guest and your virtual network card will start working again, yay!

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