Installation guide

C H A P T E R 2 Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines

• If you configured this virtual machine to use the vmxnet network driver,

choose Start > Control Panel > Network > Adapters and click Add.

3. Click Have Disk and enter D:\vmnet\winnt in the Insert Disk dialog (where

D: is the first CD-ROM drive in your virtual machine). Click OK when VMware

Virtual Ethernet Adapter is displayed in the Select OEM Option dialog. The

VMware network driver is installed.

4. Click Close in the Adapters dialog box to complete the installation. Windows lets

you configure the Internet address for the card.

If you are installing on a virtual machine that was created with VMware

Workstation and used networking, you must use an address different from the

one the original network configuration used (since that address is still assigned

to the now nonexistent virtual AMD card). Or you can change the address

assigned to the AMD card at this point.

Note: The VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter driver runs correctly only if you

have Service Pack 3 or later installed. If you do not have the proper service pack

installed yet, you may get an error message such as: “System Process — Driver

Entry Point Not Found; The

\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\vmxnet.sys device driver could

not locate the entry point NdisGetFirstBufferFromPacket in driver NDIS.SYS.”

However, even if you get this message, the driver should work if you

subsequently install the correct service pack.

5. When installation is complete, and before you reboot, choose Settings > Cancel

Tools Install to disconnect the ISO image file and return the virtual machine’s

CD-ROM drive to its original configuration.

6. Reboot the virtual machine.

Installing VMware Tools in a Linux Guest

1. Choose Settings > VMware Tools Install, then click Install.

This step connects the virtual machine’s CD-ROM drive to an ISO image file on

the ESX Server machine.

2. In your Linux guest, become root, mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM,

copy the installer file from the virtual CD-ROM to /tmp, then unmount the CD-

ROM.

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

cp /mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz /tmp

umount /dev/cdrom