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!