ASP Developer Network - Brought to you by Steve Radich and BitShop, Inc. - http://www.bitshop.com

ASPDeveloper

ASPDeveloper.Net / VirtualServerFAQ.COM

Make sure you go to our home page for:

* Virtual Server 2005 FAQ
* ASP.Net 2.0 Information
* ASP.Net 2.0 Streaming Tutorials
* ASP.Net 2.0 HTML based Tutorials

Made possible by Business Internet Technology Shop (BitShop)

Virtual PC

Recent Virtual PC posts

* Virtual machine from a ghost image
* OS Licenses
* Tool needed. Do you agree?
* Getting VPC to talk to Host
* Copying Virtual Machines
* Virtual PC 2004 not accepting valid CD keys for XP installation
* Installing Windows XP. CD Key not valid?
* allowing network users to access guest pc
* Network connectivity
* Compacting not working
* Activating XP Pro under Virtual PC
* XP Problem!
* Is VPC204 just for old versions of Windows?
* Setting Up Windows 95
* How To Install Windows 98 on XP Host
* Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Updates
* Basic Configurations
* Virtual Server Newsgroup
* VMWare disk compatibility?
* Virtual Server Supported Configurations

Add Solution

Cannot connect virtual PC to Host NIC

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 10/10/2004
From: GreenTree_Software
Message:

Just installed virtual pc 2004 on windows xp pro.
Created a virtual Hard Drive and attempted to configure it to use the host
NIC directly. My options are:
-No Nic
-NAT
-Local

I don't see a 4th option which would be my NIC.
On the host system under device manager I see two entries. One is
- 1394 Net adapter
- Nvidia Nforce networking adapter

The first seems to be the integrated nic on this ASUS motherboard I have
The second seems to be a software driver to support various motherboard
features.

I'm not sure if something needs to change with those two to make them
"visible" to Virtual PC.

(My original problem which got me looking at networking is that upon
installing (or trying) windows xp pro on the virtual pc, it rejected EVERY pc
name I chose as "already existing" so asdfwerwer already existed, gimli,
sam, greg, tracey, sillycomputername, abort etc etc. Obviously that wasn't
the problem, but rather a symptom of a deeper problem (this networking issue?)

Greg.

--
GreenTree Software
Websites and related services
Business Information Systems
www.greentreesoftware.ca

Post Reply | This is Spam! | Mark as Spam

Related Messages

Re: Cannot connect virtual PC to Host NIC

Sent: 10/10/2004
From: "Colin Barnhorst" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

If you think you got a corrupted virtual machine, delete it and make a new
one.
What are you trying to network with? If you just want it to access the
internet, you should not have to set anything. The default settings should
allow that.
VPC exposes an emulated NIC to your virtual machine, regardless of the host.

"GreenTree_Software" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in
message news:(email address - cut out)...

Show quoted text

> Just installed virtual pc 2004 on windows xp pro.
> Created a virtual Hard Drive and attempted to configure it to use the host
> NIC directly. My options are:
> -No Nic
> -NAT
> -Local
>
> I don't see a 4th option which would be my NIC.
> On the host system under device manager I see two entries. One is
> - 1394 Net adapter
> - Nvidia Nforce networking adapter
>
> The first seems to be the integrated nic on this ASUS motherboard I have
> The second seems to be a software driver to support various motherboard
> features.
>
> I'm not sure if something needs to change with those two to make them
> "visible" to Virtual PC.
>
> (My original problem which got me looking at networking is that upon
> installing (or trying) windows xp pro on the virtual pc, it rejected EVERY
> pc
> name I chose as "already existing" so asdfwerwer already existed, gimli,
> sam, greg, tracey, sillycomputername, abort etc etc. Obviously that
> wasn't
> the problem, but rather a symptom of a deeper problem (this networking
> issue?)
>
> Greg.
>
>
> --
> GreenTree Software
> Websites and related services
> Business Information Systems
> www.greentreesoftware.ca

Re: Cannot connect virtual PC to Host NIC

Sent: 10/11/2004
From: Paul Adare - MVP - Microsoft Virtual PC <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

In article <(email address - cut out)>, in the
microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, =?Utf-8?B?
R3JlZW5UcmVlX1NvZnR3YXJl?= <(email address - cut out)>
says...

This means that the Virtual Machine Networking Services is not bound to your host NIC.

No, the first one is a firewire adapter, which can't function as the NIC
for VPC.

This is your NIC.

You're looking in the wrong place. Instead of using Device Manager, go
into Control Panel and open the Network Connections. Look at the
properties for the network connection that is using the Nvidia adapter
and bind the Virtual Machine Networking Services to it. It will then
appear as an option in VPC.

--
Paul Adare
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

Show quoted text

Re: Cannot connect virtual PC to Host NIC

Sent: 10/11/2004
From: "Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam please)>
Message:

Had the same problem as you before; solved it by running the batch file:

C:\program files\Microsoft Virtual PC\Utility\INSTALL.BAT

that you will find on your machine or on your Virtual PC CDRom.

S. L.

"GreenTree_Software" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in
message news:(email address - cut out)...

Show quoted text

Post Reply | This is Spam! | Mark as Spam

Other groups

Virtual PC (Mac)(3592)	Virtual PC(12844)	Virtual PC (French)(496)
Virtual Server 2005(6245)

Our Sponsors

Virtual Server 2005 Info Here!
http://www.aspdeveloper.net

Wiki

Blogs

Articles

Image galleries

File galleries

Forums

Maps

Directories

ASP Developer Network (since 1996) - Brought to you by Steve Radich and BitShop, Inc. - http://www.bitshop.com
Copyright © 1997-2005 by BitShop, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
No content may be reproduced in any form without written permission from BitShop, Inc.
We will be honored to assist with reproduction rights on our material if you contact us.
We also can provide print articles for your magazine, private training seminars at your site, and conference presentations.
Thank you for visiting. Please bookmark our site if you found it useful!
If you wish to make a donation it will help further the development of these free resources: