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As we prepare for a new deployment of Deployment Solution 6.9, IT personnel may encounter difficulties using WinPE 2.x in conjunction with VMWare network drivers. In addition, as more and more users try to virtualize their environments, Microsoft Vista users might find themselves without networking in VMWare Virtual Machines.
There is little known work-around for this issue: make the virtual machine load up the Intel e1000 network driver. Forcing this change will make virtual machines think they have an e1000 network driver and load up the network. This also prepares Virtual Machines to run automation jobs in a pre-boot environment using this driver instead of the VMWare drivers.
Note that the minimum requirement for WinPE 2.0 and 2.1 is 512 megs of ram. If you use less then that you may experience problems that are very similar to driver issues.
Also, in VMware 6.0 if you create a VM and specify it as a Vista machine it will automatically add the e1000 identifier to the nic.
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