AMD PCnet network card drivers for VMware

Additional drivers are required when using Windows Deployment Services to deploy Windows Vista, while using VMware Workstation.

Two locations for AMD PCnet drivers:

• VMware NIC driver. The easiest way is to start up a VMware session and choose the “Install VMware Tools” option. Don’t worry if you already have them installed—all this does is mount a VMware Tools installation CD (which may autorun to perform an installation, for which you may just press “exit”). In the CD that appears in your VMware session, go to: E:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers\vmxnet\win2k\ and copy these files to your host system. Now we can use the peimg utility to mount the driver.
• http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_6629_2452%5E2454%5E2486,00.html
  Use the Windows XP signed.
  

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