User Manual

Creating Virtual Machine 79
 Parallels Network Adapter
Driver
This Ethernet driver for the RTL8029 adapter is specially
developed for Parallels Workstation to improve network
performance. We recommend that you install this driver
whenever possible.
 RTL8029
CD with Parallels Tools includes native Realtek (all except
for Solaris driver) drivers for RTL8029 network adapter for
many different operating systems. They are located in the
Drivers\Network\RTL8029 directory of the
vmtools.iso CD image.
Some guest operating systems, such as Windows 2000,
contain an RTL8029 driver in their distributions, whereas
others like Windows 2003 and OS/2 do not include this
driver at all.
Note. Unlike other guest OSes, a Solaris guest OS requires an
RTL8029-compatible driver to be installed to support
networking. Otherwise networking will not be possible.
An RTL8029-compatible driver for Solaris has been created
by an independent developer and is distributed under the
terms of BSD license. Slightly modified version of this driver
is included into Parallels Workstation 2.2 distribution.