windows 2008 server netcard problem

[Chow]

Hi,

Installed windows 2008 as a guest. I don't seem to be able to get the netcard installed however.. Tried all the cards mentioned but no one is recognized by windows.. Do I need a specific driver? And if so which one??

Thnx in advance..

 

[tom]

Hi,

Installed windows 2008 as a guest. I don't seem to be able to get the netcard installed however.. Tried all the cards mentioned but no one is recognized by windows.. Do I need a specific driver? And if so which one??

Thnx in advance..

Hi,

just use the default rtl8139 - this worked here always without any problem.
which version of win 2008 do you try? I tested with the final version of win 2008.

 

[Chow]

Using Windows 2008 Web Edition Final.. It doesn't seem to recognize the rtl8139..

 

[tom]

Using Windows 2008 Web Edition Final.. It doesn't seem to recognize the rtl8139..

hi,

I will try the web edition here.

see this screenshot from my win2008 guest.

 

[Chow]

Ok, I see what I did wrong.. I installed the guest with the wrong NIC. It didn't recognize the NIC. So I deleted the NIC from the devicemanager and changed the NIC setting in proxmox. After that I rebooted the guest in order to pickup the new NIC. It seems that doesn't work.

Now I reinstalled the whole VPS with rtl8139 immediately and that works. So changing afterwards doesn't seem to work..

 

[martin]

Ok, I see what I did wrong.. I installed the guest with the wrong NIC. It didn't recognize the NIC. So I deleted the NIC from the devicemanager and changed the NIC setting in proxmox. After that I rebooted the guest in order to pickup the new NIC. It seems that doesn't work.

Now I reinstalled the whole VPS with rtl8139 immediately and that works. So changing afterwards doesn't seem to work..

ok, thanks for update.

FYI, KVM supports already paravirtualization for winxp and win2003. I assume a driver for windows 2008 will follow soon.

 

[Chow]

Works like a charm.. Perfect for my needs.

 

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi, just to mention: When I try to upload the ISO for the KVM network driver as per the hints in this thread, the web-gui complains, telling me that it cannot recognize the template extension. So it doesn't upload the ISO file

I have been able to directly use WinSCP to dump the small ISO image into the appropriate dir (/var/lib/vz/....etc...) where iso template data resides, and then the file appears / is available to use as a 'virtual cdrom device' - so that is fine.

Just wanted to mention, there is maybe a bug, or something ?

---Tim Chipman

 

[dietmar]

its a bug - thanks for reporting it.

- Dietmar