Comments on: Testing Windows Server Longhorn with VMware Workstation 6

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:54:40 +0000

I had the same problems with the nic. I followed the steps for installing the os by switching to Vista, and installed vmware tools. Also tried adding the Ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″ The way I got it to work, was by using Vista64 OS, which forces you to switch to e1000. Turned it on and worked like a charm. Only differenc is I’m using ESX 3.01 and Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Ed.

By: Patrick Mak

Patrick Mak — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:05:40 +0000

I’ve tried to change
Ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″

And it works.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:31:23 +0000

I just installed it onto VMware Server and same – no network drivers…

Worked fine on my workstation in Virtual PC.

Anyone found a driver/workaround for it?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:06:48 +0000

Bill, I didn’t have a problem with the network device driver. However, I am using VMware Workstation 6.0.

By: E.Eliveld

E.Eliveld — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:49:56 +0000

I have installed a W2k3 server including the VMWare tools and updated to LH Beta 3 giving me the VMWare drivers.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:21:25 +0000

Were you able to install an Ethernet driver for Longhorn under VMware? I’m running it on VMware Server and I cannot get it to install a driver…

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:16:27 +0000

Josh, I am currently testing Server Core and will blog about it soon. So stayed tuned.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:47:59 +0000

Wow, thanks a lot to both of you. This saved my day.

By: Gianni

Gianni — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:41:27 +0000

Hi,

I was testing Longhorn on VMware Server 1.0.3 a few days ago and I had the same problem with the mouse pointer.

However I got it working much smoother by doing the following steps:

1) “Right-click->Properties” on desktop
2) Click on “Display Settings” (should be last link on the page)
3) Click on “Advanced Settings” button then go to the “Troubleshoot” tab.
4) Click on “Change settings” button. This might ask you for admin rights – if it does, accept.
5) Move the hardware acceleration slider all the way to the right to the “Full” setting.
6) Click “OK”, “OK” and “OK” buttons to close all the dialogs and to save settings.
7) A reboot might be required after this change.

These steps improved significantly the mouse pointer inside the VM, even through an RDP session to the Host (Windows 2003 Server).

Hopefully it helps you too with VMware Workstation on Vista…

Gianni.

By: JH

JH — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:14:20 +0000

Hi, I am the person who previous got the share folder thing working.

I noticed you used “\\.host\share”

However, this is not what I used to access, but instead I use “\\.host\Shared Folders”, and right away, I can see a list of folders that I have mapped.

I hope this helps

By: Josh Maher

Josh Maher — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:31:55 +0000

Any thoughts on what the core version would be most useful for?