Wednesday, August 29, 2007

VMware Workstation 6 - PXE boots slow

Problem:
I'm trying to use Microsoft's WDS to do PXE boots.
But it's taking literally 20 minutes to download the 167MB boot file.

HOST: Windows XP or Vista / Vmware 6.0
Guests: Windows 2003 / Vista and "pxe boot client / no operating system"

Fix:
Close VMware before making changes to the .vmx file.
Setting ethernet0.virtualDev = "vlance" in the .vmx file will switch to the AMD PCnet 32 from the e1000

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